Hanukkah

It’s Hanukkah Time! Where’s the Party?

Every December, I am overwhelmed by the magnitude of Jewish celebrations taking place across the United States. This is a ...

Ask any Jew what Hanukkah is about and you are likely to get one of two possible explanations: Maccabees or ...

I have always loved telling the Chanukah story because it is so much about the strength of the Jewish people. ...

I’m skeptical of Hanukkah. Maybe it’s the rampant commercialism that defines the entire month of December. Maybe it’s the way ...

Every year I love scouting out great foodie gift ideas and the newest holiday (especially Hanukkah) products that come onto ...

Check out the brand new video Y-Love, the gay Orthodox hip-hop artist, recorded for us for Hanukkah.Yes, that’s Yiddish you ...

So you want to dress up as Santa?!!! This is not as unusual as it might seem! I have covered ...

December is upon us – already! That means, of course, ’tis the season. So does Christmas dominate in the South? ...

My husband and I aren’t really the sit-on-a-beach-for-a-week types, so instead of a beach vaca for our honeymoon, we went ...

The High Holidays are over and Thanksgiving is around the corner. That can only mean one thing here at MyJewishLearning: ...

If there is one consistent theme in the ongoing discoveries of my family history it is meaningful coincidence. Some people ...

I went to a Modern Orthodox elementary school. For eight years I learned Hebrew (Modern and biblical), participated in Shabbat onegs ...