Hanukkah

I’m getting married next week. Most of the wedding planning is done (but, oy, the table assignments, they continue to ...

One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...

My wife and I are a multiracial couple. She’s Black. I’m White. Our 4-year-old son is biracial.My wife grew up ...

My fear is not very far below the surface. It rises when I hear about another shooting in Brooklyn, sometimes ...

I often wonder what group I would have belonged to when people were being asked to stand up and be ...

Spending Hanukkah in the Deep South is far from my “most remote” holiday experience. In December of 2012, I was ...

After spending two years as ISJL Education Fellows serving the South, fellowship alumni often leave for places near and far ...

A few years ago, I was browsing through a Judaica store. After looking at the books, and the Shabbat candlesticks, ...

My first summer at Jewish camp was back in 1994. In a move a bit out of character, I returned ...

The holiday spirit is here, and I’ll be celebrating Hanukkah this week to its fullest. My family will pause to ...

I love my girls. We have a blast together. We ski ALOT. We make endless fun of each other. Secret ...

This year, Hanukkah has special meaning for the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda. Hanukkah is not a major holiday like Shabbat or ...