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Prime Minister Ehud Barak stands with his father after lighting the menora in Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon.
Lighting of the first Hanukka candle at Sharon's home, in the Moslem Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. (File photo)
IF I tell you now that I'm not a Judaic scholar, nor have I even played one on television, I hope you'll give my observations about Hanukka the appropriate weight. That said, I see an interesting similarity between the holidays of Purim and Hanukka...
Maimonides, the great 12th-century halachic codifier and philosopher, concludes his Laws of Hanukka in a rather stirring but strange fashion. He begins his conclusionby very aptly expressing the significance of the Hanukka lights...
How do they get the jelly into doughnuts? Jessica Goldberg and Hadassah Lewis visit two popular bakeries to report on the Hanukka tradition of 'sufganiyot'
Well, we all know what time of year it is now, don't we? It's the time when a spin doctor is someone who can improve your dreidel skills, and we try to replace whatever other tune is spinning in our heads with "Ma'oz Tzur."...
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The lights burn bright around the world
The Jewish tradition is that on the first night of Chanukah one flame is lit, on the second night two, and so on until the eighth night when eight flames are lit. 
