85-year-old Sami Steigmann arrived early to share with others his experiences during World War II. As an infant Sami was subjected to medical experiments at a labor camp. If it wasn’t for an ...

The temperature hovered around 15 degrees below zero, but that didn’t keep a large crowd from gathering at Golden Heart Park early Sunday evening to witness the lighting of the menorah atop an ...

He could not light a menorah for Hanukkah when he was held in the camp during World War II. As a young man of 19, he survived a death march in 1945, reduced to a mere 70 pounds and incapable of ...

(Photo by Chaya Mishulovin) Hot chocolate, donuts, fire dancing, latkes, a gelt drop and of course the lighting of a candle marked the public Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony in downtown Skokie ...

marking the world’s first recorded public menorah lighting. Rabbi Shemtov did this as part of the Rebbe’s — Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory — Chanukah awareness campaign ...

The candle that sits atop of the menorah in the centre is called a shamash and is used to light the other candles ... of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE.