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Christmukkah Redux

By Lisa Stein

I’m going to jump into the whole Christmas/Hanukkah discussion with both feet and with some potentially...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Hanukkah Books for Kids

By Naomi N

I’m a college student with no access to children to test drive these books, but these books let me take...

Books, Hanukkah, Young Kids

Hi from Ethan and Mia

By Mia Howard Tavan

Welcome to all of our readers and thank you Benjamin for giving us this opportunity to share a little window...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Stories

The Christmas Compromise

By Sarah Callahan

Holidays combine religion and family at the gut level. Because they are filled with concrete symbols and rituals,...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

Bringing Home the Bacon

By Ruth Abrams

How many interfaith families keep kosher? I have no idea, because I’m never sure what “kosher”...

Camp, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Rituals

New Hanukkah Books Take Kids Places

By Lynn Melnick

393 December 11, 2009 Review of Harvest of Light by Alison Ofanansky (Kar-Ben, 2009), Menorah Under the...

Books, Hanukkah, Parenting Hanukkah, Young Kids

Hanukkah Goodies Including GIANT LATKES

By Ruth Abrams

It’s time for another Hanukkah blog post! All month I’m going to be doing links to IFF writers’...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Rituals, Young Kids

So Much Funukah

By Heather Martin

For me the holiday season doesn’t start after Thanksgiving or when the black Friday sales are advertised...

Hanukkah, Jewish Holidays

Hanukkah is Gonna Be All Right

By Ruth Abrams

A lot of my blogging this December is going to fall into three categories: embedding gratuitously entertaining...

Food, Hanukkah, Jewish Holidays

Honoring In-Laws’ Holidays: One Jewish Grandmother’s Approach

By Zell Schulman

Two of our four children are in interfaith marriages. Our oldest child’s family only celebrates Hanukkah,...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Food, Recipes

Negotiating Christmas

By 18Doors

392 A few months after my husband and I started dating, we had a discussion about religion over dinner....

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Marriage, Relationships

Southern Comfort

By 18Doors

21 They had me at ham. As my first Christmas with my fiance’s Italian Catholic family approached,...

Food, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

Symbols and Observances of Hanukkah

By 18Doors

1297 Return to the Guide to Hanukkah for Interfaith Families Hanukkah, unlike the major Jewish...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holidays

Symbols and Observances of Hanukkah

By 18Doors

Return to the Guide to Hanukkah for Interfaith Families Hanukkah, unlike more major Jewish holidays, does not...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holidays

The Ghosts of Christmas Past

By Andi Rosenthal

435 In the midst of packing up the apartment where I’ve lived for the past seven years, I found...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

Traditional Foods of Hanukkah

By 18Doors

Return to the Guide to Hanukkah for Interfaith Families. Traditional Foods of Hanukkah Because of the miracle...

Food, Hanukkah

Book Review of Chrismukkah: Everything You Need to Know to Celebrate The Hybrid Holiday

By Cheryl F. Coon

Yikes–I thought we had disposed of this unappealing concept, first widely popularized in the television...

Books, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

Choosing Judaism, Missing Christmas

By Laura Brambly

“I miss Christmas like I miss my mom.” I read that touching statement on this website, and thought,...

Hanukkah

Exotic Latke Recipes for Celebrating All Eight Days of Hanukkah

By Jayne Cohen

“On the first day of Christmas…” I always thought that lovely carol, cataloguing each of the...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Food, Recipes

Family Hanukkah Celebrations Plus Recipes for Fried Chicken Cutlets

By Jayne Cohen

We’ve heard about menorahs fashioned from wicks of tattered clothes lit in eggshells, from scooped out...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Food, Recipes

For Jewish Cookbook Author, Chanukah’s about the Art of Frying

By Linda Morel

Reprinted with permission of JTA. Visit JTA.org. NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (JTA)–Some women have a knack...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Food, Recipes

Giving Up Jewish Christmas

By 18Doors

293 I am the Jew in my interfaith marriage. Both of my parents are Jewish. But when I think of the December...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas

Giving up Christmas and Celebrating Ourselves

By 18Doors

476 True confessions: I love Christmas–the music, the spirit, the decorations, even the fruitcake....

Hanukkah

Our Hanukkah Story

By Bryan Daneman

As a child, my father’s family gathered at my grandparent’s house to celebrate Hanukkah. The celebration began...

Hanukkah, Jewish Holidays, Wedding Stories, Weddings

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