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Chanukah 66 articles

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Lots of Latkes
Lots of Latkes
Eileen Goltz is a freelance kosher food writer who was born and raised in the Chicago area. She graduated from Indiana University and the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris. She...
Nov 21, 2010
By Eileen Goltz
Hanukkah and Independence Day
Hanukkah and Independence Day
Is Hanukkah merely a holiday telling us a heroic story of battles won and political victories gained, like the American Fourth of July or the French Fourteenth of July? A political...
Dec 16, 2009
By Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Vayeishev: Lighting the Chanukiah in Shul
Vayeishev: Lighting the Chanukiah in Shul
The gemara states that the mitzva of Chanuka lights is “a candle to each man and his house” (ner ish u’veito). No mention is made of lighting in shul. However, many...
Dec 10, 2009
By Asher Meir
The Two Dreams of Chanukah
The Two Dreams of Chanukah
The story of Hanukkah is typical of all our confrontations in the Galut, the Diaspora. In aristocracy, each family has a coat of arms, an emblem. What was the emblem of...
Dec 9, 2009
By Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Miracles and Dreidles
Miracles and Dreidles
WHAT A MODEST, SPINNING TOP CAN TEACH US ABOUT MIRACLES We live in an age of miracles and wonder. Does that sound like a ridiculous statement to you – to characterize...
Dec 8, 2009
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Light That Menorah! Candle Making at Kassel
Light That Menorah! Candle Making at Kassel
  Chanukah commemorates a miracle from ancient times when Jews rededicated a temple and lit candelabra with enough oil to last for one day. The oil miraculously burned for eight days,...
Dec 24, 2008
By Dana Dekel
Chanukah: Doughnuts With a Difference
Chanukah: Doughnuts With a Difference
A few years ago I started thinking about Hanukkah in May. I was at a Greek festival, and I tasted a pastry that struck me as the perfect Hanukkah treat. At...
Dec 18, 2008
By Faye Levy
Vayeishev: Ner Chanuka & Ner Havdalah
Vayeishev: Ner Chanuka & Ner Havdalah
On motzei Shabbat during Chanuka we must make havdala to mark the departing Shabbat and also light the Chanuka lights corresponding to the coming day. Which has precedence? Shulchan Arukh (OC...
Dec 18, 2008
By Asher Meir
Latkes Fit to Fry
Latkes Fit to Fry
I’m bored. Maybe it’s the 40-year itch, but I’ve been making the same Hanukkah potato latkes for decades. (Not that there’s anything wrong with them. Several years ago, in reviewing my...
Dec 18, 2008
By Judy Bart Kancigor
Chanukah, 165 B.C.E
Chanukah, 165 B.C.E
Moshe leapt from one roof to the next, his heart pounding wildly*. His two pursuers leapt after him, spears pointed at his back. They had been chasing him for what seemed...
Dec 18, 2008
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham

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