Parenting Hanukkah

Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

Eight nights of wax have hardened on the little menorah that has traveled with me for more 25 years of...

What’s the Right Holiday Greeting?

By Stacie Garnett-Cook

I have to say that I have mixed feelings about “the holiday season.” While I love the beauty of the lights and...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

Two Holidays, Twice the Festivities: But One at a Time

By Emily Mace

I have always loved the holiday season, and celebrating Hanukkah as an interfaith family brings with it an extra...

Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Ask What Your Kid Really Thinks of Hanukkah & Christmas

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

We tend to ask our children the same questions over and over which are super hard to answer. Educators...

Hanukkah, Jewish Holidays, Parenting Hanukkah

My Mom and Her Hanukkah Angels

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Friends lighting the menorah at Mychal’s family’s Hanukkah party circa 1986 When I was growing up,...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Parenting Hanukkah

There is Something You Should Know, We Have a Christmas Tree

Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

This is about a different kind of December dilemma. It is not about whether my family should have a tree–we...

I Became a Rabbi, But Kept My Stocking

By Rabbi Jillian Cameron

When I was very small, my family used to light our Hanukkah menorah alongside our decorated Christmas tree....

Growing Up Interfaith, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah

A Hanukkah Giving Ritual Takes the Competition Out of The Season

By Rabbi Mychal Copeland

Years ago, I struggled with how I was going to do Hanukkah in our home. Christmas was already set. We visit...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah

The Unintended Consequences of Blintzes for Blitzen

By Emily Mace

My Jewish husband and I (a Unitarian Universalist) might not have known what we were getting into when we decided...

Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

O Menorah Tree! O Menorah Tree! Thy Candles Shine so Brightly!

Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

‘Tis the season for Jewish Scrooges to say, “Bah! Humbug!” to anything that they judge to be a blend of Hanukkah...

Take the Dilemma out of December

Parenting Challenges, Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

Last year, Hanukkah came early (remember that once in every 77,000 years Thanksgivukkah Celebration?). Back...

The Most Religious Thing I Have Ever Done on Christmas

Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

My grandfather and me in 1975 at my Jewish family's Christmas celebration wearing our matching gifts. Christmas...

The Gift of an Early Hanukkah for Interfaith Families

Thanksgivukkah has come and gone, and we have racked up stories of latke-stuffed turkeys and donuts on the dessert...

Put a Menorah on It

Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

Last week, Linda K. Wertheimer wrote for the Huffington Post about how a local grocery chain warmed her heart...

The Maccabee on the Mantel

Mac, our Maccabee on the Mantel. The other day, as the Halloween candy was being eaten and costumes were being...

Two holidays in one? I’m not so sure.

There was a time when Eric and I shared a love for The O.C. In the days before OnDemand, one of the most romantic...

Celebrating Shabbat on Vacation

Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Lighting the candles with iShabbat in Seattle My family has a regular Shabbat observance. We either celebrate...

Christmas Eve Dinner Stress

By Suzanne Lutz

So tomorrow is Christmas Eve, or as I like to call it, my daughter Kaitlyn’s birthday (what better day to have...

Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

A Christian BFF

By Sarah R.

My 4 year-old son’s BFF is a Christian boy named Connor. The two are not only inseparable; they have been...