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Ancient scriptures tell two very different stories about why we celebrate the Festival of Lights.

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There’s not much we as Jews can really unite under. We tend to agree that the Holocaust was bad (and ...

Yesterday I gave a bag of Hanukkah gelt to a non-Jewish friend of mine. It was leftover from the holiday, ...

Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving. But with Thanksgiving, comes Black Friday. Black Friday, of course, is the day after Thanksgiving ...

From Sephardic bimuelos to the American Jews behind Dunkin' Donuts.

Some different--and surprising--stories about how the Maccabean revolt began.

You know how Amazon (and its less evil compatriots) cuts off holiday shipping, what, like two weeks before Christmas starts? ...