15
Dec
Contemporary Hanukkah Songs for Your Playlist
Adam Sandler first performed “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live in 1994. Check out this and more modern Hanukkah favorites.
16
Dec
Songs for Your Hanukkah Playlist
There is a rich legacy of recorded music that can only add to our understanding of Hanukkah and our connection to its traditions.
06
Dec
The Great Hanukkah Clanging
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Hanukkah was really only about one thing when I was growing up. It wasn’t the presents—they were generally small and unexciting…
06
Dec
Gelt-y Pleasures for All Ages
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In the story of Hanukkah—the cruel reign of Antiochus, the unlikely victory of Mattathias and his sons, the one cruse of sacred oil left in the plundered Temple that burned for eight days—there is no mention of money.
10
Jan
Embracing Rosh Hodesh
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By Scott Fox
I love Hanukkah: the presents, wintertime, dreidels, candle lighting. I love all of it. I was born on the fourth day of Hanukkah...
20
Dec
The Dybbuk of Christmas Past
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By Matthew Kassel
Christmas doesn’t mean much to me anymore, though for the first ten years of my life, it was my favorite holiday. Pretty standard,...
18
Nov
O Come, All Ye Chosen
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Mid-November means that it's officially pumpkin spice latte and peppermint mocha season at Starbucks. (What, you don't measure time by the seasonal offerings of national...
29
Dec
My First Christmas, Again
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by Steven Philp
This past Saturday my family sat around the Christmas tree to unwrap presents. We have a particular system when it comes to opening...
07
Dec
Maccabeats Suffer “Wardrobe Malfunction”
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By Doni Kandel
The Yeshiva University Maccabeats, the university’s a capella group that has taken the United States by storm, received one of their first ugly...
06
Dec
An Ancient Synagogue in Damascus
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By Samantha Sisskind
If you go to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in Damascus, Syria, you’ll find hardly any obvious traces of Jewish life. ...
05
Dec
Recipe: Sumac or Za’atar Latkes
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Both sumac and za’atar (hyssop) were biblical spices, the former used to impart a lemony flavor to food, and the latter to season almost anything....
03
Dec
Hanukkah Throwback: Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
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Maybe the goblins of Hanukkah don’t just exist in the pages of a picture book; perhaps today’s goblins are the trappings of adulthood that make us forget the special glow that the Hanukkah of our youths possessed.