Jews celebrate Hanukkah by lighting a candle holder known as a menorah. One candle each night is lit for the eight days of the celebration. During the first night, one candle is added to the menorah and lit. On the second day, another candle is lit, and it goes on like this for each...
When Hanukkah is your holidayPresents suggestions to help American Jews deal with kids who want to celebrate Christmas. Ways to make Jewish children understand and appreciate Hanukkah; Celebrating Hanukkah with a dinner party for friends.Krit...
Find out about the first day of winter with the official winter solstice date for 2023. Read about Farmers' Almanac predictions and cold-weather activities.
Plot:Kat (Kennedy) is an esteemed astrophysicist, who is scheduled for her first trip into space next year until an accident grounds her. While on leave, coming to terms with the reality that her dream of being an astronaut is over, she volunteers at the local...
Consult any wedding planning checklist and you'll see that one of the first—and most important—tasks to complete is picking a date. But did you realize there are wedding dates to avoid at all costs in 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027? When it comes to choosing the best day to get married...
This generation of Israeli youth deserves the same respect as our archetypal warriors the Maccabees. For those that have fallen in battle, their families should know that their lights have not been extinguished. Their lights shine on in every Jewish home as we light millions of Hanukkah candles ...
“If we’re really going to get this thing under control — or at least slowed down in a way that it doesn’t become even more catastrophic than it already is — it needs to start coming first and we have to just be willing to deal with things tha...
Get reanimated by a mad scientist. Subsequently, share your experience in a world-wide speaking tour where your intro music is “The Monster Mash.” Donate your body to science and have med students compliment your spleen. Go to heaven. Say, “It’s like I died and went to heaven!” an...
where we still weep. Let it be an acceptance of the darkness we’ve known so well… and then, like the solstice, like the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah… let it also be a celebration of light into which we emerge and to which we find ourselves… perhaps not as we were before, but ...
Hanukkah starts on the evening ofDec. 25this year, and Kwanzaa begins the next day onDec. 26. If you want any Hanukkah or Kwanzaa packages to arrive before the holiday begins, use the shipping deadlines for Christmas. Nothing is guaranteed, and storms and package supply shortages m...