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Three blessings said when lighting the Hanukkah candles.

The ever-popular potato latke heads the list of traditional, oily Hanukkah treats.

Hanukkah reminds that rather than running from our darkness, we can choose to confront it.

In lighting the candles of Hanukkah and then Shabbat, we move from the very old to the positively ancient.

When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...

A towering intellectual who theorized about the nature of totalitarianism and Nazi evil.

Orthodox Views on Halakhah. Views on Halakhah. Halakhah in Jewish Daily Life and Practice. Jewish Life.

There are disagreements as to why the holiday of lights is celebrated when the days are short.

The Mishnah references Hanukkah only obliquely.