Habari Gani? How My Family is Melding Kwanzaa and Hanukkah Customs
Five Ways to Approach Family Conversations around Hanukkah and Christmas
Teach (and Practice) a New Jewish Value Each Night of Hanukkah
This Hanukkah, Bring the (Edible) Shtetl to Life for Teens
When teens at a regional NFTY event ask when you are going to repeat the program they just attended, you must be doing something right. Coming out of the program, it was clear that they were happy – happy because they were fully engaged, had fun, and because along the way, they learned something about themselves, their peers, their identity and their heritage.
How Fair Trade Gelt Embodies Hanukkah's Message
10 Things to Know About Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights
Here's Everything You Need for the First Night of Hanukkah
I Fell Off a Mountain – and Lived to Thank the Man Who Rescued Me
Have I Failed as a Jewish Mother?
Judaism was so unfamiliar to my son that he was wary of my Hanukkah gift. I felt as though, at such a young age, he was choosing to shun my religion, to identify with Christianity. Of course, if he chooses to identify with either religion later in life, that decision will be his own – but for now, I need to at least give Judaism a fighting chance.