When I was a little girl, Hanukkah meant making decorations, lighting candles, singing prayers and opening presents. Now that I have children of my own, I do the same; however, with three children in the electronic age, gifts started to get quite costly, so I started a new family tradition.
I saw a product in a [...]

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Jonathan Hadad (Israel, AC 09-11)
The celebration of Chanukah does not originate in the old testament but was added later to the Jewish tradition. Chanukah celebrates one of the times in history when someone tried to destroy Judaism and failed. Like Christmas, it is celebrated in the beginning of winter and one of the main themes [...]

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The Standard Prayer Book, tr. by Simeon Singer, [1915], at sacred-texts.com
p. 420
SERVICE FOR CHANUKAH
The Feast of Dedication lasts eight days. On the first evening a light is kindled, the number of lights being increased by one on each consecutive evening. The Chanukah lights should be kindled as soon as possible after nightfall.
On Friday the lights [...]

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Los Angeles may be home to one of the largest concentrations of Israelis in the United States, but many in this group, known as yordim (Israeli ex-pats) and hybrids (anyone who is a combination of Israeli and American) often find themselves feeling isolated. They long for a stronger organizational link to their Israeli compatriots even [...]

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It has often been noted that the Jewish holidays function within a dual cycle of history and nature. This is perhaps most clearly expressed in the Kiddush of Friday evening, where within one sentence we speak of the sanctity of Shabbat as a memory to the act of creation and as a memory to the [...]

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