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Hanukkah will start on December 25 at sunset and will end January 2, at sunset. Hanukkah begins on the eve of the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev and lasts eight days. The starting date on ...

On January 2, the last day of Hanukkah, the eighth candle is lit at their Kovai home and the family recites prayers and sings songs "expressing gratitude to the almighty". Anne is one of the very ...

Hanukkah began Dec. 25 this year and is observed over the course of eight days, ending this Thursday, Jan. 2. Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers ...

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Jewish devotees of the New York Times’ game Strands came in for a shock when the day’s puzzle offered up a Hanukkah theme ... one celebrated by 1.2 billion Hindus around the world.

in the 2 nd century BCE. Second, there’s the matter of the name. “Hanukkah” — in Hebrew, “חנך‎”, meaning “to dedicate” — only gained its association with the ancient temple ...

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