Hanukkah

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Above the Fold: Happy Hanukkah – Hanukkah Sameach

Jews ate latkes (fried potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (fried donuts) to commemorate the miracle of the single oil flask found in the Temple when the Maccabees retook the holy site.

Hanukkah – The Festival of Lights

We are celebrating the triumph of the Maccabees, led by Mattityahu and later by his son Judah, over the Greek Syrians, led by Antiochus.

No Holds Barred: An ignorant ‘New York Times’ trashes the Maccabees

The Hasmonean revolt was not a fundamentalist- religious movement sworn to the destruction of liberal Western ideologies.

Grapevine: Where the heart is

Jewish light: What are we are radiating out into the world?

When two mitzvot are in conflict with each other, we commonly favor the mitzvah that we engage in more regularly.

A hidden lesson of the Hanukkah story

This is the dual lesson of Hanukkah and of Joseph and his brothers: disunity leads to defeat and exile; unity leads to redemption.

The power of the Hanukkah story: in those days at this time

It should come as no surprise that the Sages tell Hanukkah stories about both the inextinguishable light of Jewish nature and the universal human hope that dawn follows the dark.

The Hanukka story – check your motivation

Jews in the Diaspora deal with this question every day; it goes to the essence of their identities.

Hanukka – The Temple connection

Happy Hanukka.