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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

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...

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

Eight Nights of Giving: Kids Edition

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

While December is the season when kids get excited about presents, it’s also a perfect time to teach them the...

Hanukkah, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah

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

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 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

Our Hanukkah Fight Wasn’t Really About What We Teach Our Kids

By Anna Keller

I took a seat at my computer while the girls were doing crafts in the kitchen and the baby was toddling around...

Hanukkah, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

Why My Jewish Kids Love Their Advent Calendars

By Melissa Anne Cohen

I was at Trader Joe’s the other day and bought an advent calendar. For my dog. While this does make...

Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

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

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

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

The Miracle of Light

By Anna Keller

This interfaith holiday season has been trickier than I thought. If there is a lot of planning, cooking and...

Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

To Tree or Not To Tree

By Anna Keller

The dual holiday extravaganza this season is more work than I thought it would be. But, it’s important for...

Extended Family, Hanukkah Rituals, Holiday Toolbox, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

A Not-So-Cookie Cutter Hanukkah: Or, When The World Makes It Difficult To Celebrate Hanukkah

By Jessica Tobacman

We were late. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the aisles of Target, my husband and I were...

Dessert, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Food, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holidays Food, Parenting Hanukkah, Recipes

A Recipe for Conversation and Holiday Cookies

By Jordyn Rozensky

For some of us in interfaith homes, December can highlight sticky situations. There are questions of how to...

Dessert, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Food, Hanukkah Rituals, Jewish Holiday Food, Parenting Hanukkah, Recipes

Hanukkah and Christmas: Getting It “Right”

By Elizabeth Vocke

My husband jokes that I only married him so I could finally celebrate Christmas. And I admit that I do love...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

8 Hanukkah Night Ideas For The Whole Family

By Galit Breen

Our bellies were barely filled with Thanksgiving sweetness — pumpkin and apple and pecan pies, of course — before...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah Rituals, Parenting Hanukkah

Charity Begins At Home, Part 2

By Jane Larkin

My son helping to pack snack boxes at the North Texas Food Bank in January. Last night, my family watched NFL...

Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

The Twelve Days of Interfaith Holidays

By Emily Mace

With not quite 12 days between Hanukkah and Christmas this year (depending on just how you count), I thought...

Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

My Kids Are Jewish, With or Without Christmas

By Lela Casey

Christmas Eve walk through the neighborhood luminaries. As the only Jewish kid in my small town in Pennsylvania,...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Identity, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

3 Tips for Teachers During the Holidays

By 18Doors

By Stefani Wiemann Stefanie and her family The holiday season is upon us. Christmas music plays in restaurants,...

Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Tips and Advice, Religious Education

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