Hanukkah this year began at nightfall on Sunday November 28 and will end at nightfall on Monday December 6. So, if you are Jewish, like some of my kin, light this evening the fifth of the nine candles of the menorah.

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Hanukkah this year began at nightfall on Sunday November 28 and will end at nightfall on Monday December 6. So, if you are Jewish, like some of my kin, light this evening the fifth of the nine candles of the menorah.

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