The book should convey the story of Hanukkah, not the story of someone’s bubbe’s latkes or someone’s new menorah or someone’s lost dreidel. A Hanukkah parent visit should get down to the basics, even in a Jewish school (unless the kids are really old, and then why are you visitin...
Here’s the Big Idea in a nutshell: Every year, Jewish people have special dinner gatherings called seders (seder means “order”) where we don’t just remember the story of Passover (see book suggestion below), we are supposed to pretend we are part of it. We eat special foods that ...