Hanukkah Doughnut Masterclass with Pastry Chef Fany Gerson
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The well-known Hanukkah symbol has Christmastime roots.
In 2023, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Thursday, Dec. 7 and lasts until sundown on Friday, Dec. 15.
Lesser-known facts about the Festival of Lights.
From candle-lighting to Maccabees and latkes to dreidels.
At this moment of intensifying violence, the Torah offers an insight into how we might open a path towards peace.
In this Torah portion, God tells Jacob to return home. Worried that his brother Esau will kill him, Jacob divides his clan into two camps, so at least some will survive in case of a fight. Jacob sleeps alone in the desert and is awoken by an angel who wrestles him through the night. Jacob survives and is blessed by the angel and renamed Israel. Jacob meets his brother and, surprisingly, they embrace. Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, is raped by Shekhem, who then proposes to Jacob that he marry her. Shimeon and Levi brutally murder Shekhem and his clan. Rachel has another child, whom she and Jacob name Benjamin.
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This Torah portion interperses multiple momentous encounters with the divine realm with a series of fraught incidents between humans.
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Break their teeth.
Watch where you’re going!
The second-most dangerous animal.
The Hasidic prayer practice of hitbodedut — talking to God freely in one’s native tongue — helps to build intimacy over time.
From bonfires to hanging menorahs to an extra candle, here are some lesser-known Jewish Hanukkah traditions from all over the globe.
The books that tell the Hanukkah tale didn’t make it into the Hebrew Bible — but they are in the Catholic one.
Jewish tradition teaches that music unlocks the door to divine connection.
How the festival of lights became a holiday, and how it has evolved in modern times.