CENTREVILLE — Celebrating the miracle of oil in which one night of oil lasted eight nights, the Centreville town square filled with traditional songs Dec. 20, a reciting of the Hanukkah blessing, and ...
HAS MORE FROM YORK TOWNSHIP. THE JCC HERE IN YORK COUNTY HAS BEEN CELEBRATING HANUKKAH THROUGH TRADITIONS, FUN AND FOOD. BUT THE HOLIDAY ACTUALLY HOLDS A DEEPER MEANING. AND I HAVE TERRY TRAVERS ...
When a local rabbi invited me to a Hanukkah celebration, I immediately accepted. However, I confess that, as the evening approached, I saw this opportunity as more of a duty. For one thing, it was ...
From religious hymns to classic covers by some of the commonwealth’s best known musicians, PA Local’s holiday playlist spans genres and decades. Asha Prihar of Spotlight PA You may not know it (yet), ...
Here we are in a holiday week, the winter solstice arriving, which means the days will once again feel longer with early sunsets beginning to fade away. Dec. 21 marks the shortest day and longest ...
You may not know it (yet), but lots of holiday earworms have the work of a Pennsylvanian — or several — behind them. From 19th-century religious hymns to covers of Christmas classics by some of the ...
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers of that fact every year, lamenting that the Jewish Festival of Lights has almost become an imitation of the ...
Auggie the Andean bear celebrated Hanukkah at the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona by playing with a giant dreidel toy, as seen in footage shared by the zoo. Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump ...
Hanukkah is arriving on our doorstep, and this year feels different. Before explaining why, a recap of the holiday’s basic elements might be helpful. Often, when Hanukkah is mentioned, people ...
Ami Kozak, Dov Rosenblatt and Duvid Swirsky of Distant Cousins. The group released its new song “8 Lights.” About a year ago, while on tour with Matisyahu, the group Distant Cousins had an idea for a ...
LOWELL — As the world reeled over the massacre perpetrated at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia over the weekend, a menorah was lit in front of Lowell City Hall on the second ...