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Hanukkah Traditions Around The World
Every year, Jews gather around the menorah and celebrate eight days of Hanukkah.
VIDEOS
Hanukkah Traditions Around The World
Every year, Jews gather around the menorah and celebrate eight days of Hanukkah.
Courtesy of Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps
RELIGION
Giant Menorah Survives At Jewish Summer Camp Devastated By Woolsey Fire
By
Carol Kuruvilla
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps were destroyed in the Woolsey fire, but a hilltop menorah withstood the blaze.
WOMEN
Eight Nights of Hanukkah for the Single Ladies
By
Melanie Notkin
, Contributor
Founder SavvyAuntie.com and bestselling author, Savvy Auntie: ...
First Night It's Sunday! If you've got nieces and nephews by relation or by choice who live nearby, this is the time to spend
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POLITICS
The Real History Of Hanukkah Is More Complicated Than You Thought
By
Daniel Marans
and
Nick Baumann
What do you really know about the "festival of lights"?
GPS FOR THE SOUL
Hanukkah in Sin City (Looking for the Viva in Las Vegas)
By
Peter Himmelman
, Contributor
Grammy and Emmy nominated singer-songwriter, author and CEO/Dr...
RELIGION
Keeping Judaism (Chanukah) In College
By
Trevor Youshak
, Contributor
Past President at UF Hillel
Keeping your faith while studying in college is one of the biggest difficulties of being away from home.
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RELIGION
Hanukkah 2015: Dates, Rituals And History Of The Festival Of Lights
By HuffPost Religion Editors, The Huffington Post
The story of Hanukkah is one of revolution and miracles.
NEW YORK
Together But Alone
By
Jamie Silverman
, Contributor
Associate creative director, animal lover, reader, runner and ...
Just like birthdays, each passing year of single status, is a constant reminder of what you have still failed to accomplish. Sure, maybe you got a promotion. Or bought a new house. But if you still show up at the dinner table without a plus one, it always seems to feel much more monumental.
COMEDY
A Shiksa's Guide to Understanding Hanukkah
By
Sarah Sweeney
, Contributor
Voice Actor | Writer
Maybe Adam Sandler taught you everything you need to know about Hanukkah, but if you're curious beyond the marijuanakkah and gin & tonikkah then read on, my friend.
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RELIGION
Thanksgivukkah was Instagrams's Busiest Day in 2013
By
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein
, Contributor
Deanna and Allen Alevy Senior Rabbi and Co-Founder, LA's Pico ...
The intersection of religion and social media came to a beautiful crescendo this year with the double holiday of Thanksgiving
RELIGION
The Power of this Moment: Lighting the Menorah
By
Rabbi Daniel Klein
, Contributor
Director of Admissions for the Rabbinical School of Hebrew Col...
One of the key lessons of the Hanukkah story is that if we are to create an enduring future, we must have the wherewithal to fashion sacred moments here and now that uplift our spirits and have the potential of becoming touchstones.
RELIGION
The Car Menorah
By
Sara Esther Crispe
, Contributor
Co-Director of Interinclusion.org, Motivational Speaker, Writer
You see, for the past few years during Chanukah we have strapped a large menorah to the top of our van. Depending on where you live, you may have seen this. But for the general public of Philadelphia, this definitely draws attention.
RELIGION
Biblical Depth vs. Artistic Freedom: A Scary Menorah
By
Jonathan Greenstein
, Contributor
Contributor
I don't know what the artist had in mind when crafting this piece by hand. I don't think that anyone will ever know.
RELIGION
Happy Holidays -- Which Ones?
By
William B. Bradshaw
, Contributor
Author
It may be politically correct to say "Happy Holidays," but it is historically, culturally, and religiously incorrect!
RELIGION
What's in a Shape?
By
Edward Jacobs
, Contributor
Concept and exhibition designer
Chanukah, known as the Festival of Lights, uses a hybridized version of the original menorah -- eight cups instead of seven, to hearken back to the original as well as to commemorate the great miracle of the single cruise of oil lasting for eight days.
RELIGION
In Jamaica, Hanukkah Means Freedom
By
Rabbi Dana Kaplan
, Contributor
Shaare Shalom Synagogue in Kingston, Jamaica
As Jamaican Jews, we have been enormously appreciative of the religious freedom that we have been granted on this glorious tropical island.
SMALL BUSINESS
Celebrate Thanksgivukkah With A Menurkey
RELIGION
The Miraculous Hanukkah-Seed
By
Netanel Miles-Yépez
, Contributor
Netanel Miles-Yépez is an artist, philosopher, religion schola...
On Hanukkah we wish one another, Hanukkah same'ah! 'Happy Hanukkah!' Because it's a celebration, a remembrance of something good, a time in our mythic past when our ancestors saw miracles . . . and needed them.
RELIGION
Hanukkah & Earth: The Sacred Green Menorah
By
Arthur Waskow
, Contributor
Rabbi, Ph.D, Director of The Shalom Center
On Shabbat Hanukkah (this year, Nov. 29-30), we read an extraordinary passage from the Prophet Zechariah. Speaking during the Babylonian Captivity, he envisions the future Great Menorah, taking its sacred place in a rebuilt Holy Temple.
RELIGION
Hannukah and the Search for Miracles
By
Rabbi Aaron Alexander
, Contributor
Rabbi Alexander serves as a senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congre...
At first glance, this Talmudic debate smacks of petty irrelevance. Is this what a religious life really demands? Why should which side I place the
hannukiah
, and how close it may or may not be to the door, matter at all?
RELIGION
Kitsch Judaism
By
Rabbi Denise L. Eger
, Contributor
Founding Rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami and President of the Ce...
Where is the room for a thoughtful, meaningful, joyful Judaism that has respect and honor for our traditions even as they are evolving?
RELIGION
Sports, Hanukkah and Greek Culture
By
Eliyahu Federman
, Contributor
Civil rights activist and writer; Senior Vice President and Ch...
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.
CULTURE & ARTS
Menorahs Through the Ages
By
Jonathan Greenstein
, Contributor
Contributor
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.
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