Hanukkah

Jewish actress Natalie Portman announced to Jimmy Fallon that she is going to have a Christmas tree for the first ...

This year Hanukkah happens to begin on Christmas and end on New Years. With all that’s happening on your calendar, ...

It’s not even Rosh Hashanah, and some people are already talking about Hanukkah! There’s a new children’s book: Shmelf the ...

I’m getting married next week. Most of the wedding planning is done (but, oy, the table assignments, they continue to ...

One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...

My wife and I are a multiracial couple. She’s Black. I’m White. Our 4-year-old son is biracial.My wife grew up ...

My fear is not very far below the surface. It rises when I hear about another shooting in Brooklyn, sometimes ...

I often wonder what group I would have belonged to when people were being asked to stand up and be ...

Spending Hanukkah in the Deep South is far from my “most remote” holiday experience. In December of 2012, I was ...

After spending two years as ISJL Education Fellows serving the South, fellowship alumni often leave for places near and far ...