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Hanukkah & Christmas

What You Need for Hanukkah This Year

By Sophie Mortman

Self-gifting is the same as self-love, right? Whether you need a new menorah, you covet a new craft in your...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holidays

shofar honey and apples

Sign Up for Jewish Holiday Email Series

By 18Doors

We all want the Jewish holidays to be joyous and meaningful–not stressful. But let’s be honest: Challenges...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, High Holy Days, Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Tu Bishvat, Yom Kippur

What To Do in December: Parents Edition

By 18Doors

Parents in interfaith families often come to us with questions about celebrating the December holidays. Visit...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Tips and Advice

What to Do in December: Grandparents Edition

By 18Doors

Grandparents with grandkids in interfaith families often come to us with questions about celebrating the December...

Grandparent Advice, Grandparents, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

What You Need for Hanukkah This Year

By Sophie Mortman

Self-gifting is the same as self-love, right? Whether you need a new menorah, you covet a new craft in your...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holidays

18Doors’ Guide to Hanukkah

By 18Doors

This guide to Hanukkah will teach you about the holiday and its traditions. You will learn how to approach...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Parenting Hanukkah

menorah and xmas tree

December Holidays Conversation Starters

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

The December holidays bring up more questions and tension for many couples than any other time of year. Because...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Relationship Challenges

Christmas tree

How To Talk About Christmas Trees in an Interfaith Relationship

By 18Doors

Tree or no tree? Little tree or big? Only at the grandparents’, or at home, too? More than perhaps any other...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Relationship Challenges

How To Talk to Your Kids About Not Celebrating Christmas

By Lindsey Silken

If you’re raising your kids Jewish but you or your partner are from a different faith (even if neither of you...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Tips and Advice

The Guide: Hanukkah, Christmas and Your Interfaith Family

By 18Doors

Interfaith families are diverse and varied in terms of family structures, faith backgrounds, celebrations,...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

The Guide: December Holiday Decision-Making Means Compromise

By 18Doors

It might feel as though there are an unlimited number of December holiday decisions you’re up against. Not...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

The Guide: Navigating Through December Holiday Challenges

By 18Doors

Even after so much effort to create your ideal holiday full of understanding and combined traditions, there’s...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

Christmas Decorations: My Guilty Pleasure

By Anna Keller

It’s that time of year again when I ask myself as a Jew if I prefer Christmas to Hanukkah. Historically, my...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Jewish Holidays

family at Christmas

Christmas and Hanukkah Without Our Extended Family

By Jodi Bromberg

Every year, my parents host a Hanukkah party for their three adult children, their spouses and their 11 grandchildren...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

My First Christmas as a Jew (To Be)

By Kristin Eriko Posner

A new “Christmas” tradition for Kristin and her husband. Christmas in the Namimoto household lasted...

Family, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Marriage

church christmas light

I’m Jewish but Go To Church on Christmas—Here’s Why

By Melissa Henriquez

Growing up in New Jersey, I loved celebrating Christmas. I have lovely memories of opening presents on Christmas...

Hanukkah & Christmas, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Life

Exchanging gifts

How Gift Giving Has Changed Since Marriage

By Laura Drescher

The weather is quickly changing!  That means it’s time to think about “the holiday season” this year. Last year...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Marriage, Newlywed, Relationships

menorah

How Hanukkah, Christmas and a New Baby Inspired My Children’s Book

By Lauren Muskovitz Ranalli

Lauren with her family As a young couple, my husband and I sailed through our early holiday seasons together....

Family, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Newlywed, Parenting Hanukkah

Christmas tree

Why Can’t We Have a Christmas Tree?

By Alina Adams

“We can’t have one,” I replied, full of the weary knowledge that only the mother of a...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Jewish Holidays, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

Finding Hope as a Newlywed in the New Year

By Laura Drescher

Watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a spiritual experience for me. I’ll try to explain without spoiling the...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Marriage, Newlywed

Revisiting the December Holidays

By Edmund Case

As always at the end of the year there were a lot of stories about interfaith families and the December holidays....

Hanukkah & Christmas, Op-ed

Why I Reject Chrismukkah

By Alicia Chandler

Back in 2003, I thought it was amazing when Seth Cohen from The O.C. first taught the world about the magic...

Family, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Parenting Hanukkah

A No Dilemma December

By Laura Drescher

Before they lived together, Zach helped Laura and her roommate Sarah carry their Christmas tree home The other...

Hanukkah & Christmas, Marriage, Newlywed

Becky and Femi

The C Word

By Becky Sowemimo

It’s the conversation topic almost every interfaith couple dreads (that is, if one of the members is Christian)....

Dating, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Love, Relationships, Weddings

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