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A womans white hand and a mans black hand hold a Hanukkah candle together as they light a Hanukkah menorah

Habari Gani? How My Family is Melding Kwanzaa and Hanukkah Customs

As we each shared some favorite holiday memories, my partner asked, “So what does each candle of Hanukkah symbolize?” Puzzled, I asked him to explain what he meant. “You know, like for Kwanzaa.”

Celebrating December Holidays with My Interfaith, Interracial, Multicultural Family

Rachel Chung

A Brownie Munchkin Menorah for the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah or Chanukkah

5 Kinds of Incredible, Edible Hanukkah Menorahs

The best part? Your family can gobble up your homemade hanukkiyot while the Hanukkah candles are burning!

Mother and daughter looking out over a marsh while on a hike

8 Experiential Hanukkah Gifts to Teach Kids About Jewish Values

They're everywhere these days: ads for toys show up on TV, in shop windows, and throughout your Facebook newsfeed. When you're a parent to kids who have been mentally compiling their Hanukkah wish lists since autumn began, it can be difficult not to get swept up in the consumerism that often accompanies the holiday season.

Eight Great Sci-Tech Experiences to Celebrate Hanukkah!

Greg Kellner

At URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy, a Reform Jewish summer camp outside Boston, Jewish campers spend their summer exploring robotics, video game design, environmental science, digital media, and other fun activities.

Teach (and Practice) a New Jewish Value Each Night of Hanukkah

Assign a different Jewish value each one day of Hanukkah and plan appropriate activities for your family. The idea of activities is not simply doing for doing’s sake, but doing for the sake of learning. Be sure to reflect and talk afterward!

Jeremy's Dreidel

At a dreidel-making workshop, Jeremy’s friends think that he is molding a secret code on his clay dreidel. However, they soon find out that he is really making a special gift: a dreidel with Braille letters on it for his father, who is blind.

Eight Nights, Redefined

For some children, finding out that the tooth fairy isn't real is the final straw.

The Day Our Daughter Killed Santa: A Cautionary Tale

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

One day after a Girl Scout Brownie meeting, my wife received a call from an irate mom accusing our third-grader of ruining her daughter’s childhood: “Mimi announced in front of all the girls that there is no Santa Claus!” My wife apologized, but in Mimi’s defense, pointed out that sooner or later

Celebrating What Really Matters in December

I get asked a lot if I’m “half.” Often, people are referring to my mixed Caucasian and Asian American heritage, their curiosity sparked by my Korean last name on my Jewish business card or by whatever other seeming tip arises on a given day. Other times, particularly as the holidays overlap in December and my family brings out our menorah alongside our Christmas tree, people ask whether I’m “half Jewish,” assuming my dual holiday celebration must mean some part of me is not Jewish. They couldn’t be more wrong.