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...
Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism's "festival of lights." On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means "dedication," ...
Hanukkah (光明节) came early this year, perhaps too soon after Thanksgiving to allow us to prepare well. During the first night of Hanukkah, the Hanukkah candles were nowhere to be found in the entire Dallas area where we lived. Birthday candles wouldn't work! The tall ...
Rub recounted with pride one night of Hanukkah this year, when his local Jewish community gathered to pray in unison and light the menorah, a tradition passed from parents to children for thousands and thousands of years. Unity in prayer, even if Bethlehem is closed this year, is, for Rub ...
We’re between Hanukkah and Christmas, so you know what that means: It’s time for my annual holiday message. Reblogged from a 2016 post: I was doing rite to Hathor, the Lady of Love, today (i.e. December 16), and something came to me. Maybe it isn’t earth-shattering, but I ...
Every Friday night, Jewish households prepare to celebrate the Sabbath. The ritual is marked at the beginning by the lighting of two candles by the woman of the house and special prayers at the synagogue. The evening and following day are marked by feasts and prayers as well as a day of ...
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Gelt is a Hanukkah tradition. Gelt holds additional significance inHanukkahtradition. For example, many Jewish families offer alms to the poor in the cold and difficult winter season, and some rabbis make a tradition of giving out gelt to the less fortunate in their communities. According to the...
On Yom Kippur, appropriate greetings are more reflective than celebratory. Here are some things to say, as well as what to avoid.