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Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday

Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Dec 4, 10:02 am ET

Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday

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What is Chanukah?
Arkansas News Bureau - Wed Dec 9, 6:30 am ET
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?
Many local Hanukkah celebrations planned
Lehigh Acres Citizen - Wed Dec 9, 12:13 am ET
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.
Chanukah Fest, bazaar for fun and education
The Brandon News & Tribune - Wed Dec 9, 12:10 am ET
Get a lesson in the Festival of Lights, while perusing crafts, playing games and enjoying the Jewish holiday spirit this weekend.
Buy a dreidel, fight dyslexia
New York Post - Tue Dec 8, 6:07 pm ET
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...
Jewish families kick off Hanukkah early
9 News Denver - Sun Dec 6, 7:38 pm ET
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.
Hanukkiah come in all shapes, sizes
The Toledo Blade - Sat Dec 5, 8:08 am ET
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 ...
Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Dec 4, 10:02 am ET
Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday
Events set to celebrate Jewish holiday
Miami Herald - Thu Dec 3, 10:53 pm ET
Jews around the world are busily making preparations for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. This year, the eight-day holiday begins at sunset Friday .
The brisket experience
The Jewish Advocate - Wed Dec 2, 6:53 pm ET
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.
Yiddish for Comrades
Forward - Wed Dec 2, 3:27 pm ET
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.
Sisterhood shares Hanukkah dishes
Access Atlanta - Wed Dec 2, 8:41 am ET
Hanukkah, perhaps the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday in America, begins Dec. 11.
School schedule at standstill
The News-Press - Tue Dec 1, 1:24 am ET
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...
Saturday: Tulsan's design on U.S. postal stamp
Tulsa World - Fri Nov 27, 2:38 pm ET
It is only the third U.S. stamp to commemorate the Jewish holiday, which begins Dec. 11.
Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving
The Berkeley Daily Planet - Wed Nov 25, 12:12 pm ET
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).
Sheila's Out Shopping: Hanukkah
Naples Daily News - Fri Nov 20, 5:57 pm ET
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 ...