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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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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 .
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 ...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 ...
Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Tue Nov 17, 11:29 pm ET
Students from Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration on skid row.
The drive to donate food
Daily Pilot - Sat Nov 14, 12:14 am ET
For the past five years, Temple Bat Yahm member John Bernstein has spent the day after the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur overseeing the distribution of several tons of food, which the congregation amasses each year in a large diesel truck outside the temple.
Book It: Book Events November 15–21
Bostonist - Sun Nov 15, 9:29 pm ET
Monday, November 16 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store *Cory Doctorow, Makers 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Steve Buckley, A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports Tuesday, November 17 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Maxim D. Shrayer, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Anita Silvey, Everything I Need to ...
A Haredi Town Confronts Abuse From The Inside
The Jewish Week - Tue Nov 10, 7:50 pm ET
On the night before Yom Kippur in September, Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman stood before his Orthodox congregation, in a room crowded with men wearing black hats and women wearing sheitels, and moderated a panel discussion among five Orthodox Jews who said they had been the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of other Orthodox Jews. The rabbi regularly uses his pulpit to preach against the evils ...
Hanukkah celebrations around Summit
Summit Daily News - Thu Dec 10, 3:18 am ET
SUMMIT COUNTY - Hanukkah starts Saturday, and with it comes a few fun Jewish holiday celebrations in Summit County. A Hanukkah menorah lighting will be held at the Blue River Plaza and the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge Monday. The Chabad Jewish Center of Summit County will be lighting a giant menorah at 5:30 p.m. and everyone is welcome to attend. Hanukkah is highlighted by "the kindling of ...
Buy a dreidel, fight dyslexia
New York Post - Mon Dec 7, 7:19 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...