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Sports, Hanukkah and Greek Culture

Eliyahu Federman | Posted 02.16.2013 | Religion
Eliyahu Federman

The Miami Heat hosted a Jewish heritage night at the basketball team's Dec. 12 game at American Airlines Arena, with tens of thousands in attendance. How odd, I thought, to celebrate Hanukkah in a sports arena, given that the concept of sports is emblematic of Greek culture.

Menorahs Through the Ages

Jonathan Greenstein | Posted 02.11.2013 | Arts
Jonathan Greenstein

This Hanukkah, when Jews light their menorahs, we should remember that the item we are lighting holds a large cultural and historical significance. It symbolizes not only the miracle of the lasting oil, but also the miracle of the surviving Jewish people.

Light Up The Night: Hanukkah Wisdom And 8 Organizations That Shine Light In The Darkness

Eitan Press | Posted 02.10.2013 | Religion
Eitan Press

We are living in times of darkness, where change seems impossible. But there are small groups of people who are working to make a difference.

Servant To The Light: The Ninth Candle

Laura Berman Fortgang | Posted 02.09.2013 | Religion
Laura Berman Fortgang

As the attendant to the light, the Shamash is responsible for lighting all the others. So too, each of us is a light. We have the choice as to whether we live from that lit-up place or ignore our light.

Happy Hanukkah!

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.09.2012 | HuffPost Home

It’s time to celebrate!

PHOTOS: 18 Awesome Menorahs, But Are They Kosher?

Posted 12.08.2012 | Religion

When our friends at BuzzFeed published this collection of awesome and unexpected menorahs for Hanukkah, we kvelled (reacted with joy for the non-Yiddi...

For The Separation Of Menorah And State

Eliyahu Federman | Posted 02.05.2013 | Religion
Eliyahu Federman

Taking a symbol like the menorah, which represents that struggle of adhering to faith in the face of an oppressive Greek culture that believed everything should be secular and rational, and redefining it as having secular connotations contradicts what the menorah represents.

Why I'm Not Telling My Daughters The Story Of Hanukkah

Carla Naumburg | Posted 02.04.2013 | Religion
Carla Naumburg

We will be celebrating Hanukkah once again this year, lighting candles, eating latkes, opening presents and spinning dreidels. We'll sing Hanukkah songs. We'll talk about the holiday a lot, but I'm not going to tell my girls the story of Judah the Maccabee. Not yet.

Hanukkah Light: Looking Out and In During the Holiday Season

Judith Greenberg, Ph.D. | Posted 02.03.2013 | Parents
Judith Greenberg, Ph.D.

Nature has parked itself on small sections of our city's corner. Soon, the trees will be gone, my son observes, sold to homes where they will decorate living rooms and be adorned with bows, ornaments, trinkets and gifts. His living room will be empty of such wonder.

Germany's First Lights

Chava Tombosky | Posted 02.29.2012 | Religion
Chava Tombosky

Every year I spend one night of Hanukkah with my grandmother, who is 89 years old. And every year it seems that I manage to leave this poor woman in tears.

How Do You Celebrate Hanukkah? Send Us Your Photos

Posted 12.21.2011 | Religion

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is celebrated Dec. 20-28. Send your photos of menorah lighting, latke frying and dreidel spinning to religion...

National Menorah To Be For 1st Night Of Hanukkah

AP | Posted 12.20.2011 | DC

WASHINGTON -- A special lighting ceremony is planned for the National Hanukkah Menorah near the White House on the first night of the eight-day Jewish...

PHOTOS: The Best Menorahs For Hanukkah

The Huffington Post | Dickson Wong | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home

For those celebrating Hanukkah, it's literally just days away now (this year the Jewish holiday falls on Tuesday, December 20). There will be blue and...

Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah

Vivian Reiss | Posted 02.12.2012 | Arts
Vivian Reiss

2011-12-13-Screenshot20111213at2.40.05PM.jpg Even though my menorah is dedicated to the latke, the symbolic fried food that I make for chanukah comes from my Hungarian roots: langos.

UPDATE: Evergreen Reverses Course On Menorah Display

Posted 12.14.2011 | Denver

A rabbi in Evergreen who has been able to display a menorah in front of a community building for almost six years, is no longer able to since the city...

'Where The Wild Things Are' Author To Create Hanukkah Exhibit

AP | Posted 11.30.2011 | Religion

NEW YORK -- New York City's Jewish Museum has invited author Maurice Sendak to rummage through its collection and choose menorahs for a Hanukkah exhib...

Weird Holiday Inventions From The U.S. Patent Office

Dumb As A Blog | David Moye | Posted 01.29.2012 | Weird News

The holidays are not just a time where kids dream about getting gifts. It's also a time when aspiring inventors dream of hitting it big with a holi...

Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah

Rabbi Or Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Rabbi Or Rose

What does it mean to light a Hanukkah candle?

14 Hanukkah Celebrations From Around The World (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Dec. 1 marked the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish "Festival of Lights", which runs through Dec. 9. HuffPost bloggers Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi ...

The Miracle(s) Of Hanukkah

Rabbi Laura Geller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Rabbi Laura Geller

What is the real miracle of Hanukkah? It is the miracle of human courage that empowers us to take risks for the future even in our imperfect, uncertain world. It is the courage, even in the darkest of times, to create our own light.

Caviar Latkes

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Gerald Sindell

We had found it was getting increasingly difficult to get too worked up over Chanukah. We still wanted to do something for Chanukah but we also wanted it to be something that adults would enjoy.

How A Nice Jewish Boy Learned To Like Christmas ... Because Of Paganism

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jay Michaelson

While I'm still not a fan of endless C-major holiday songs and goyishe blinking lights, I have learned to make my peace with Chrismas - ironically, because of the same "paganism" that I once used to decry.

Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Aaron Zelinsky

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

Archaeologists Find Early Menorah Depiction

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to sy...

Out of Line: Recession Hanukkah

Mort Gerberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Mort Gerberg

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