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How to Add Some Competitive Excitement to Your Hanukkah Party
I’ve been joking this year that with Hanukkah starting on Christmas Eve, our holiday doesn’t have a chance to compete ...
A Shout-Out to Shavuot
If you ask me, Shavuot doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Judaism has a lot of holidays, and it’s understandable ...
How to Make A Bike-Powered Menorah in Mississippi (and Everywhere)
Spending Hanukkah in the Deep South is far from my “most remote” holiday experience. In December of 2012, I was ...
10 Tips For Hanukkah Happiness
I’ve lived in big cities like Los Angeles, and small towns in the Mississippi Delta. I’ve been part of communities ...
My Virtual Rosh Hashanah Experience
I’m thankful for the internet everyday. I’m thankful when it guides me to a new restaurant, tells me the score ...
Somebody’s Getting Married… Under the Chuppah!
Only this Jewish woman – this devoted, active, works-in-the Jewish community Jewish woman! – would meet and marry a man named ...
“Shalom, Y’all”: An Arkansas Pastor’s Chanukah Wish
This blog originally appeared on Lutheran Confessions, and is re-posted here with permission from the author, Pastor Clint Schnekloth. Although ...
Holiday Happenings
December is upon us – already! That means, of course, ’tis the season. So does Christmas dominate in the South? ...