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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Williamsburg officials and community members celebrated the lighting of the menorah during Hanukkah’s fifth day on Sunday at the Williamsburg Community Building. James W. Robinson/staff Along ...

WASHINGTON — For Washington, D.C. the start of Hanukkah also means the lighting of the 30-foot National Menorah on the Ellipse, in front of the White House. And as of Tuesday afternoon ...

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.