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A man and woman exchanging a Hanukkah gift in a bag patterned with colorful dreidels

Hanukkah: More Than Just Presents?

Katharine Nasielski

This weekend, we will gather together with family or friends (or, if you’re on the RAC staff, with 215 high school students at L’Taken) around the Chanukah lights, spin the dreidel, eat latkes and sufganyot and engage in the great “applesauce or sour cream” debate.

Eight Nights, Redefined

For some children, finding out that the tooth fairy isn't real is the final straw.

8 Blogs of Hanukkah: Why did Antiochus' army ruin all the oil in the Jerusalem Temple?

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

8 Blogs for 8 Nights of Hanukkah Blog #1: Oil and the Secret of the Jew

Rise up Maccabean Style for Rights of the Disabled

Rabbi Lynne Landsberg

Raechel Banks

The sages of the Talmud had a debate about how we are to light the Chanukah menorah: Should we begin with eight candles and remove one each night, or begin with one and add through the holiday?

Following EPA Finding, Reform Movement Calls for Action on Crucial Day in Climate Fight

December 7, 2009

Saperstein: "New, equitable, and comprehensive national and international policies are needed to truly tackle the environmental, economic, and public health challenge of climate change."

Be a Lamplighter: A Reflection on Newtown and Darkness

Rabbi Sari Laufer

I have a bunch of blog posts brewing in my head, but felt like I couldn't write anything until I wrote about Newtown. But, what could I say? What can I say?

Every Day is Labor Day

Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz

Every day is Labor Day. Jewish tradition expounds the importance of work and those who do it. Even God worked for six days and then rested on Shabbat. The Jewish vision of the messianic era is not an age of idleness, but rather one in which swords become plowshares.

Hanukkah's History: Challenging but Full of Meaning

Joshua M. Z. Stanton

The history of Hanukkah squeezes us between two competing narratives: one of idealization

Remember the Days of Old

September 23, 2017

In Haazinu, Moses recites a poem telling the people of Israel that they must give glory to God and be true to God whose ways are just. He instructs them to consult their elders and “remember the days of old.”