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

Hanukkah: More Than Just Presents?

By
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.

Rise up Maccabean Style for Rights of the Disabled

By
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?

Galilee Diary: Seasons greetings

By
Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. They shall not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me; for you will serve their gods - and it will prove a snare to you.
-Exodus 23:32-33

All I Want for Christmas is a Christmas Tree

By
Kate Bigam Kaput

I am, and have always been, Jewish, but I was raised in a household with a father who was secularly Christian. We “celebrated” Christmas and Easter, but never went to church. We put up a tree but did not speak of Jesus. We colored eggs but did not discuss resurrections.

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