Posts Tagged: Hanukkah
UK Prime Minister Johnson Issues Hanukkah Message to Jews: ‘Britain Would Not Be Britain Without Its Jewish Community’
Newly-elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a Hanukkah message from 10 Downing Street on Sunday afternoon, noting the recent rise in antisemitism and telling...
The Hanukkah Challenge for Young Jews
JNS.org - Hanukkah’s popularity with American Jews was largely the result of a futile if determined effort to compete with Christmas. While enjoying freedom, prosperity,...
Kids in the Kitchen Light Up Hanukkah
JNS.org - Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is one of those holidays that takes over everything. The pantry overflows with bottles of oil and baking...
Give It Up for the (Israeli) Kids: Hanukkah and Charity Drives
JNS.org - The staff and volunteers at Yad Ezra V’Shulamit’s children’s center in Jerusalem began noticing that one little girl only came to the after-school...
Charges Filed Against Three Penn State Students for Stealing, Damaging Hanukkah Menorah
Police filed charges against three Pennsylvania State University students for removing and damaging a Hanukkah menorah on campus, in the first of two such recent incidents. The...
Judaism, Haredi Intolerance, and Greek Culture
Judaism has engaged and locked horns with Greek culture for thousands of years. Alexander the Great permitted the Judeans to worship freely. But then the...
Hanukkah vs. Christmas: Does It Have to Be a Contest?
In an opinion article in The New York Times on December 1, “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah,” Michael Davis Lukas expressed his conflict over the holiday. On the one...
And Finally, the Miracle of Hanukkah
You will be forgiven for never having heard of Chaim Selig Slonimsky. A minor celebrity in 19th century Eastern Europe, he was an avuncular man with...
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting, Hanukkah, and Jewish Unity
Below is an excerpt of a speech written for a memorial service held in Kokomo, Indiana for the victims of the attack on the Tree Of...
The New York Times and Hanukkah
Ever since Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, launching what eventually became the Sulzberger family dynasty that still presides over the newspaper,...
American Jewry’s Hanukkah Hypocrisy?
JNS.org - The New York Times’s coverage of Jewish topics has long been fodder for those who study both media bias and the complicated relationship between the...
Hanukkah: A ‘Stiff Necked’ People — the Fight for Sovereignty and Against Assimilation
Hanukkah is not just about gifts, latkes, jelly-filled donuts (sufganyot), and dreidels -- though they are certainly nice (and fun). At its core, Hanukkah is the...
Why Should We Light the Menorah With Olive Oil?
Below is an excerpt from the book The Light That Unites: A Chanukah Companion (OU Press) by Aaron Goldscheider. There are several ways that one may...
Iran Tops Agenda at Pompeo-Netanyahu Meeting in Brussels
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Brussels on Monday for a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was in the Belgian...
