Despite many efforts to fight the trend, gifts and Chanukah still go hand in hand. Instead of trying to beat the system, embrace it and
Teaneck resident Shlomo Mizrahi has been in the jewelry business since 1972 and launched a unique and beautiful sideline in the 1990s. He can take
Chanukah had become about presents and stuff for our family, and I knew it could be more. Obviously kids expect and get excited for the
Was the First Day Miraculous? The Beit Yosef asks: Why is Chanukah celebrated for eight days and not seven? There was enough oil to last
(Courtesy of Kollel Chatzos) “Bren, lichtele, bren…” As we sing at our precious Chanukah licht, we implore that the candle burns and burns and burns…
Chanukah is remarkable in a number of ways. Jewish holidays are typically marked by physical actions one is required to do and prohibitions—some combination of
As you shop for all the friends and family on your list this year, there’s an important recipient to consider: your pet. Before sniffing around
Karen Rostoker-Gruber’s “Farmer Kobi’s Hanukkah Match” is available nationwide at Barnes and Noble this holiday season for fun reading with the whole family. In 2016,
Chanukah, of course, is the celebration of the Jewish people coming from the darkness into the light. And since I work in the lighting business,
Probably the most popular story in the Talmud is the story of the modular oven (Baba Metzia 59b); its parts connected by sand so that
I can still remember spending a Shabbos Chanukah with my grandparents. My grandfather lit his father’s large silver menorah, taken when he escaped Germany in
The term “Chashmonai” is widely used in the rabbinic literature about Chanukah. But nowhere in I Maccabees and II Maccabees is the term used, and
