If you’re after some fun Hanukkah activities during this holiday season, steer yourself and your family in the direction of the Jewish Community Center. The folks at the J have assembled a full line-up of family-friendly fun to help usher in the Festival...

To celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas, Max and Sophie, siblings in an interfaith family, bake up a batch of gingerbread dreidels. That’s the plot of a new children’s book out this year, but it could be a real-life occurrence this month, when the...

A few weeks ago, I sat the adult children down and told them, in no uncertain terms, I planned to cut back on gift giving this holiday season. Let’s put the money toward a week-long family summer vacation. Making memories through an experience together,...

In 2013, there was the “Menurkey,” a turkey-shaped menorah, for the highly unusual overlap of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Now, 11 years later, a new holiday-mashup menorah is making its appearance. The Happy Jew Year hanukkiah features a spinning...

(JTA) — As an art director at the United States Postal Service, Antonio Alcalá has designed stamps honoring Woodstock, the Emancipation Proclamation and Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s book classic “A Snowy Day.” But this year’s USPS Hanukkah...

It was a happy sixth night of Hanukkah in downtown St. Louis at the 29-foot-tall menorah. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones declared Dec. 12, “A Day Of Light And Jewish Pride" in the city of St. Louis, and joined Chabad’s regional director Rabbi...

Hanukkah celebrates the hard-fought victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greek army. Following their victory, the Jews rededicated the Second Temple in Jerusalem — removing idols and statues left by their enemies, cleansing the Temple, building...

(JTA) — The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany hosted its seventh annual International Holocaust Survivors Night event Monday with a slate of Jewish celebrities, communal leaders and heads of state — many of whom drew connections...

The city of St. Louis officially kicked off the Hanukkah season Thursday night with the lighting of what is believed to be the third tallest Hanukkah menorah in the United States. The 29-foot menorah is just 5-feet shorter than the world's largest menorah,...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the next eight days, one menorah will be lit in the office of Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff; another will sit in the office of his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris; and a third will illuminate their home. Each menorah carries...

In 1989, comedian Jon Lovitz donned a blue and white fur hat in the role of Hanukkah Harry on “Saturday Night Live.” In the skit’s setup, Santa had taken ill, so Harry stepped in to assist his old friend, delivering practical gifts like socks and...

The definition of a miracle is an extraordinary event not characterized by natural or scientific law, therefore being a supernatural act of divine agency. I didn’t know God started her own agency, but I’m super proud of her.  As we light the first...