Chanukah Today

Fifty years after the first public menorah lighting, 15,000 public menorahs are being lit in the most extraordinary places.

Chabad-Lubavitch's Hanukkah Initiative to Reach Eight Million Jews in 80 Countries -- in an infographic.

Menorahs can be as beautiful and diverse as the communities that make them. We’ve looked around the world and gathered fifteen of the wildest menorahs we could find!

Hi, America, I’m Thanksgiving. And I’m also Chanukah. Hold my hand. Take a deep breath. Exhale. Now say, “Thank G‑d, we’re free.” Doesn’t that feel good?

Some history . . . What’s a miracle? . . . Power of the individual . . . The Greeks and the Jews . . . The mind and beyond . . . Chanukah today . . .

For the first time in recent history, the vast majority of Jews can practice Judaism freely and without oppression. Is the lesson of Chanukah no longer necessary? Do we no longer need to live its story and reinforce its message?

Apparently, some reporters and news editors already "knew" that the rabbi is against the trees, and nothing--not even their own reportage--was going to change the way they present the story

There are people who consider Chanukah, a holiday that isn’t even mentioned in the Torah, to be a relatively minor one.

Many—although by no means all—of the public menorahs on display today feature straight branches extending diagonally from each side of a central shaft. This trend began in the 1980s, but it is rooted in a debate that might stretch back to the Middle Ages and beyond.