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Bondi Beach hero, Ahmed al-Ahmed, pauses recovery plans, meetings due to new severe pain

Ahmed had arrived in New York earlier in the week to pursue the next stage of what he described as his "treatment journey." During his stay, he had appeared on multiple US TV shows.

NEW SOUTH WALES Premier Chris Minns visits Ahmed al Ahmed, who was identified on social media as the bystander who hid behind parked cars and seized a rifle from one of the gunmen during the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday, at a hospital in Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2025.
Woman blows out candles of menorah in Tel Aviv mall.

Police investigate after woman goes viral for blowing out Hanukkah candles in Tel Aviv mall

Police have opened an investigation after footage circulated online showing a child riding a scooter and extinguishing candles on a hanukkiah at the entrance to a residential courtyard in Ramle, the police announced on Sunday.

Police open probes into candle extinguishing during Hanukkah

A Hanukkah menorah.

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Amsterdam gets large Liberace-inspired menorah for annual Hanukkah concert

That year, the Jewish Community of Amsterdam, a nonprofit representing Orthodox Dutch Jews, decided to stop loaning out the menorah, itself a replica of an even older and more significant one.

 THE 2020 National Menorah is lit near the White House last December.

Boris Johnson loses pieces of a menorah he received from Jewish group

At a luncheon in London hosted by the Conservative Friends for Israel group, Johnson and Lapid received menorahs as gifts as a token of gratitude in the midst of the Hanukkah holiday.

 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson lighting Hannukah candles as Yair Lapid looks on

Eric Adams, elected mayor of New York, kindles the first light of Hanukkah

Mayor Adams lights the first candle with New York's real estate tycoon Rotem Rosen, and speaks to the audience about the meaning of the holiday from his memories of Hanukkah celebrations.

 Eric Adams and Rotem Rosen

'We must fight antisemitism and hate of every kind,' says Second Gentleman Emhoff

“Let us always remember that Jewish history is American history,” said Emhoff at the National Menorah Lighting in Washington.

 Second Gentleman Doug Ermhoff at the lighting of the National Menorah, November 2021

FIDF to host virtual candle lighting series featuring Jewish celebrities

Each night of the event will showcase heroic and life-saving stories that IDF soldiers have had while serving their country. 

The IDF is the ultimate equalizer in Israeli society. To that end, FIDF’s programs provide life-changing opportunities to soldiers of all backgrounds.

Counterfeiters take advantage of popularity of olive oil menorahs

Some producers dilute their olive oil with cheaper vegetable oils without disclosing all of the ingredients and lure consumers in with lower prices.

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Creator of Chabad’s famous menorah sexually abused girl, lawsuit claims

The survivor of the alleged abuse, a 36-year-old woman living in Israel, is trying to get possession of her abuser’s brass menorah, normally displayed at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.

KFAR CHABAD’S replica of the famed Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.

Jewish souls - A rabbi’s treasures culled from around the world

Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum has collected over the last 22 years thousands of treasures from the Jewish past.

Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum in Venice

Amar’e Stoudemire travels everywhere with an antique golden menorah

In an interview with Bloomberg published Wednesday, Stoudemire said he brings an “antique gold menorah” with him wherever he goes.

Amare Stoudemire receives his Israeli ID card with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri

Modi’in and the hanukkiah: The Jewish right to light

Those of us fortunate enough to live in Israel can personally visit the archaeological finds of the Maccabee period and walk through the modern city from which stemmed the revolution.

US Army chaplain Rabbi Alan Greenspan lighting the hanukkiah with Jewish soldiers in Vietnam in 1965