Hanukkah menorah
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A Hanukkah menorah, also called hanukkiah/chanukkiyah or khanuke lomp is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights that sy
A Hanukkah lamp from Lemberg in The Jewish Museum of New York
A hanukkiah with a Star of David
A 14th-century Hanukkah lamp at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
A silver hanukkiah
Star of David
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The Star of David is a symbol generally recognized as representing both Jewish identity and the Jewish people's ethnic religion, Judaism. Its shape is that of a hexagram: the compound of two equilater
Hanukkah menorah
…commemorates, but is distinct from, the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. Along with the seven-branched menorah and the Star of David, it is among the most widely produced articles of Jewish ceremonial art. In 167 BCE, a Jewish resistance movement called the Maccabees formed in response…
The Star of David featured in the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, the Leningrad Codex, dated 1008.
Star of David at the Oshki Monastery, dated CE 973. The monastery is located in Tao, modern-day Turkey.
Hexagram in the ancient synagogue at Capernaum
Historical flag of the Jewish community in Prague