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Community members, including Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, left, celebrate the arrival of a new Torah near the rabbi's residence in Monsey, N.Y. A day earlier, a knife-wielding man stormed into the home and stabbed multiple people as they celebrated Hanukkah in the Orthodox Jewish community. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Jewish leaders urge action after another ‘senseless’ attack

By GARY FIELDS and LUIS ANDRES HENAO and KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

Orthodox Jewish people listen to N.Y. state Assemblyman Dov Hikind speak in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing late Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. A man attacked the celebration at a rabbi's home north of New York City late Saturday, stabbing and wounding several people before fleeing in a vehicle, police said. (AP Photo/Allyse Pulliam)

Cuomo: 5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration was fueled by hate

By Ryan Tarinelli - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019 file photo, Orthodox Jewish men pass New York City police guarding a Brooklyn synagogue prior to a funeral for Mosche Deutsch in New York. Deutsch, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn, was killed in the shooting inside a Jersey City, N.J. market. New York City is increasing its police presence in some Brooklyn neighborhoods with large Jewish populations after a number of possibly anti-Semitic attacks during the Hanukkah holiday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NYC ups policing in Jewish areas after spate of attacks

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Holocaust survivor and WWII veteran Mikhail Spectr, 86, pauses as he speaks during the annual Hanukkah Menorah Lighting Ceremony in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Spectr was taken to Jewry in 1941 at the age of 8 when Nazi soldiers arrived at his village in Ukraine Soviet republic. Mikhail Spectr had been kept at ghetto in Transnistria, territory between Dniester and Southern Bug, occupied by the Nazi and its allies from 1941 and 1944. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

From New York to Moscow, Holocaust survivors share memories

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Art museum hosting Boston’s biggest Hanukkah celebration

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Speaker asks governor to move congressional special election

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Talk radio icon Michael Savage visits with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the White House for a Hanukkah celebration. (Photo courtesy of Michael Savage)

Michael Savage at White House: Jews at ‘high water mark of their existence in America’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rabbi, latke brigade kick off first night of Hanukkah

By JIM BISSETT - Associated Press

Jewish synagogue in Utah holds active shooter training

By GILLIAN FRIEDMAN - Associated Press

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers watches the installation of a menorah outside the Tree of Life Synagogue before holding a celebration on the first night of Hanukkah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. A gunman shot and killed 11 people while they worshipped Saturday, Oct. 27, at the temple. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Correction: Hanukkah-Holocaust story

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Rabbi’s wife takes care of needy in own congregation first

By MIKE FERGUSON - Associated Press

Rabbi’s wife takes care of needy in own congregation first

By MIKE FERGUSON - Associated Press

Illustration on the connection of Christians and Jews through religious holidays by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

How Christians and Jews connect in a season of religious holidays

By Suzanne Fields

Holocaust survivors stand at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Holocaust survivors worldwide celebrate Hanukkah

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten second from left, Rabbis Abraham Shemtov, left, Levi Shemtov and Nachman Holtzberg, right, light the National Hanukkah Menorah, at the Ellipse, near the White House during a lighting ceremony marking the beginning of the celebration of the Hanukkah, Sunday Dec.. 21, 2008. Associated Press.

Hanukkah celebrations set amid security concerns

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Actress Fran Drescher hosts Hanukkah celebration

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Jews use the menorah to help celebrate Hahukkah, which begins at sunset on Dec. 24 this year. **FILE**

Rabbi: Prison rule prevents Hanukkah celebration by inmates

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Mansfield Jewish center to build, light Lego menorah

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Alan Gross stands with his wife Judy and gives remarks to the media after being released from a Cuban prison where he was held for five years, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Gross was arrested while in Cuba while working as a U.S. government subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Alan Gross, just released from Cuba prison: ‘Good to be home’

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times