BOSTON (JTA) — When Deborah Bodin Cohen immersed herself in rabbinical school in the early 1990s, she expected to spend a year in Israel as part of her studies with Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. What she didn’t know was that a...

BOSTON (JTA) — Back in 1984, when Eric Kimmel was an up-and-coming children’s book author, he tried his hand at a Hanukkah story, one featuring goblins. Overly cautious Jewish editors rejected the manuscript, not knowing what to make of it, Kimmel...

BOSTON (JTA) -- Rhyming verse, lively family scenes, a cute pig who eats kosher pickles -- and yes, menorahs, latkes and the Maccabees -- are featured in a new crop of Hanukkah books for children written by some of the country's most popular award-winning...