What is Hanukkah? Tuesday marks the sixth night of Hanukkah, a Jewish celebration marking the re-dedication of a holy temple. From candles to colors, WCCO's Kirsten Mitchell answers Good Questions about the "Festival of Lights." Dec 12, 2023 Polish lawmaker extinguishes Hanukkah candles ...
What is Hanukkah? Read up on the history and share these fun Hanukkah facts at the dinner table. Get ready to chow down on latkes!
Hanukkah celebrations typically include the lighting of the menorah, special meals, and meaningful gifts. The eighth night often brings a culmination of these celebrations, where traditional foods, such as potato latkes and sufganiyot (doughnuts), are enjoyed. What is traditionally given every night d...
My goal is to help kids and grownups spend time together making Jewish things. I like stuff that is hands-on, attractive, non-fussy, cheap and real, and so fun no one realizes it's educational. The value is in the doing, not just the being done, and in the conversations and questio...
Oy, what a shanda. Poor Sid Haig and Dick Miller. Both going out with this travesty as their last film. The premise seemed like it would be full of blasphemous satire in the vein of such schlocky classics as Silent Night Deadly Night and Black Christmas.But this monstrosity is just dire...
At the center of the Hanukkah celebrations is a candlestick (called a Menorah) that holds nine candles.On the first night of Hanukkah the first candle is lit,and each day this candle is used to light another candle,until on the eighth day,the last day,all the candles are lit.During ...
On the first night of the festival, the first candle is lit, and each day this candle is used to light another candle, until on the eighth day, the last day, all the candles are lit. During the festival, people go to the temple to pray(祈祷) and to remember the miracle(奇迹) of...
Jesus is also Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8), and the purpose of the Sabbath was to wean humans off the natural cycles (day, night, summer, winter) to which the whole natural world is subdued, and create a world based on the calendar, which is an utterly synthetic thing since th...
What is Hanukkah?It's the second night of Hanukkah, a Jewish celebration marking the re-dedication of a holy temple. From the candles to the colors, WCCO's Kirsten Mitchell first answered your Good Questions about the "Festival of Lights" last winter.Dec 27, 2024...
What words can better uplift the Jewish People today?The Rabbi Sacks LegacyDec 25, 2024, 6:26 AM First night of Hanukkah: One candle or eight? The famous dispute between the Sages is another instance where Hillel's school of thought sees the world as it is, Shammai's sees the world ...