This year’s Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF), which marks the festival’s 25th anniversary, includes 50 features and 14 short films. With so many movies to choose from, it can be difficult to know ...

The 24-year-old was selected after performing winning versions of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on The ...

Then again, there is the Outline Festival, now taking place at various locations around Jerusalem for the eighth ... Not that it was exactly all love and light. “There were some very tough ...

The theme of the puzzle was “Festival of Lights Delights,” signaling that all of the hidden words would likely have to do with Hanukkah. But while “latkes” and “applesauce” were ...

It was about the religion,” Rabbi Ari said. Rabbi Ari told the crowd about how the holiday began in the second century BCE and described the reclamation of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Second ...

This is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” a fitting celebration for the darkest ... reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of God. But when they ...

A little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness,” he said. The lighting of each candle signifies the rededication of the second temple of Jerusalem ... of the eight-day festival followed after ...

“It has been great,” Father Flavio Gillio said of turnout for the annual “Festival of Lights,” the region’s largest seasonal light display.

This happened in Jerusalem. It was winter ... Hanukkah is also known as the Festival of Lights when the Temple was rededicated, and at Christmas Christians recall that Jesus called himself the light ...

Prior to that, the commemoration was known as the Festival of Lights, according to the Roman chronicler, Titus Flavius Josephus. That term, (of obscure origin), may have prompted the legend ...

Jason Packer lights the menorah during the fourth annual community-wide event Chanukah on Jay held at Key Hall at Proctors on Sunday in Schenectady. The festival featured music, crafts and kosher ...

It’s an eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” celebrated with a nightly ... when a group of Jewish fighters reclaimed the temple in Jerusalem and sought to re-light its menorah (an oil-based ...