Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday
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Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday
Meat, potatoes and oniony goodness in one thin helping: Is thisanother miracle for Hanukkah? Not exactly. Israeli-born Washingtoncaterer Vered Guttman says these latkes are a Sephardi dish that’spopular among Jews in the Balkans. They are made year-round andserved on Rosh Hashanah and even Passover (made with matzoh mealinstead of bread crumbs).
Leah David is hoping to beat dyslexia using one dreidel at a time.The executive director of Ohr Halimud is crafting the four sided tops used during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah to help raise money for her organization, a not for profit group that h...
Friday evening we light the first candle on the Chanukah menorah, for it’s the first night of this minor eight-day Jewish holiday that’s become a major one over the years. There are blessings to be recited, songs to be sung, latkes to be eaten. . . but just what does Chanukah celebrate?
Hanukkah this year with various festivities. Jewish holiday that commemorates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple. The holiday begins at sunset on Dec. 11 and ends at sunset on Dec. 19.
Get a lesson in the Festival of Lights, while perusing crafts, playing games and enjoying the Jewish holiday spirit this weekend.
DENVER - Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the miracle of the menorah, doesn't start until next Friday night, but that didn't stop celebrations from starting early.
Jews around the world are busily making preparations for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. This year, the eight-day holiday begins at sunset Friday .
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, celebrating the miracle of a lamp that burned for eight days with just one day's worth of oil in it, will be celebrated starting at sundown Friday. The most familiar symbol of the holiday is the menorah, or Hanukkiah. An additional candle on the candelabrum is lit each of the eight nights of the holiday. Menorahs can be made out of almost any ...
The week of Yom Kippur, you may recall, I published a column about a Yiddish letter, written by a young soldier in the Russian army to his family during World War I, that a reader asked me to decipher.
I have no idea where or when the tradition of eating brisket on Chanukah began. It probably started because brisket was a food saved for celebrations, and Chanukah was certainly that: a celebration of miracles. My grandmother made brisket for Pesach and other holidays, but I really don't remember it.
Rosh Hashanah remains the sticking point in settling next year's Lee County school calendar, and the lack of consensus might prompt a committee to...
Hanukkah, perhaps the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday in America, begins Dec. 11.
It is only the third U.S. stamp to commemorate the Jewish holiday, which begins Dec. 11.
Somehow someone’s gotten the idea lately that Thanksgiving is all about food. Well, no, not exactly. It’s the successor to a whole variety of traditional festivals going back at least to the Jewish Sukkot (sometimes transliterated as Succoth).
The lighting of the first candle for Hanukkah this year will be at sundown Dec. 11, and all eight candles and the shamus will be burning brightly on Dec. 18.Hanukkah is the Jewish holiday that is also called the festival of lights, and celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the Hellenist Syrians in the second century B.C.A small amount of oil to light the ...