What Hamas Can Learn from Hanukkah

Champagne and the Deeper Meaning of Hanukkah

Burst your comfort zone bubble.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

Who Were the Maccabees?

Who are the heroes of Hanukkah?

Seeing Hope When So Much Feels Hopeless

Hanukkah and the power to see beyond what is and envision what will be.

Today We Are All Maccabees

We are all Maccabees, standing for truth and light despite the hatred and evil that has contaminated the atmosphere.

Get Lit This Hanukkah: 3 Ways to Tap into Your Inner Light

Give, elevate the physical, and tap into tranquility.

8 Questions to Ask Yourself This Hanukkah

How to create moments of light during this difficult time.

What Hanukkah Is Really About

The meaning of history’s first ideological war, the shocking denouement of the Maccabees, and why Jews focus on the miracle of the oil, not the battle.

Why was the Menorah Burning for 8 Days Such a Big Miracle?

Growing up, Hanukkah – and just about everything about Judaism – seemed vacuous and superficial. Then I started to learn.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Why Hanukkah: 4 Insights Everyone Should Know

Including the meaning of the oil and why turning it into the Jewish Christmas as antithetical to the holiday.

Why We Celebrate Hanukkah with Light

Why do we commemorate Hanukkah with the oil when the miracle of winning the war seems so much greater?

Rabbi Sacks' 8 Short Thoughts for Hanukkah

Illuminate Hanukkah with these inspiring insights.

Three Ways to Find Your Inner Light

Hanukkah is a unique time for accessing the sparks of light within and thereby light up the world.

Chanukah: It's Greek to Me

What is the essential philosophical difference between the Greeks and the Jews?

The Jewish Gladiator

Imagine the choices and consequences that starving slave had to face.

Is Perfectionism a Jewish Virtue?

Give yourself – and others – permission to be human.

Dread and Pride in Being Visibly Jewish

Celebrating Hanukkah in Berlin revealed deep fissures in my Jewish pride.

Star Wars and My Search for Spirituality

The Last Jedi, Chanukah and the battle between the forces of light and darkness.

Five Hidden Messages of the Hanukkah Lights

Meditate on these 5 short insights as you gaze at your menorah’s lights.

Saying Hello to Hanukkah

As a convert celebrating my first year of Jewish holidays, I can see that there's something in Judaism that is very much worth fighting for.

Was There a Hanukkah Miracle?

If ever there were evidence of supernatural intervention in human affairs, it would have to be in the realm of the medical.

This Hanukkah, Think about Fred

Anyone can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Seeing 20/20, Even In 2020

Hanukkah teaches us how to see beyond the surface.

Hanukkah and The Queen's Gambit

People love the underdog.

Hanukkah and the Miracle of Addiction Recovery

Addiction is a daily uphill battle where modern-day miracles are being performed throughout the recovery process.

Daf Yomi and Hanukkah: Becoming Engaged Jews

Enemies of the Jewish people try to get us to forget the Torah. Engaging in Torah learning ensures we remember it.

Hanukkah & Weddings: The Deeper Connection

Celebrating Hanukkah represents the same type of joy as getting married – we actively choose who we love in order to continue our people.

Hanukkah is Jewish Pride Week

On Hanukkah, we proclaim our difference with special enthusiasm, refusing a ‘woke’ form of universalism which does not allow for Jewish distinctiveness.

It's Time to be a Maccabee

The Hanukkah battle isn't over.

Is Hanukkah a Religiously Significant Holiday?

Hanukkah is far more than the Jewish Christmas. It is the holiday of the spiritual survival of the Jewish people.

The Meaning of the Menorah's Light

Four contemporary insights to illuminate our darkening world.

Hanukkah and the Soul

Indispensable to the Jewish worldview is the idea that humans are unique, that we possess a spiritual component and that our actions are freely chosen.

The Fascinating Numbers of Hanukkah

Hanukkah: it’s all in the numbers.

5 Amazing Hanukkah Artifacts

Touching history in Israel.

A Response to Recent Tragedies: 8 Questions for 8 Nights

How can we counter the darkness and bring light to the world?

Chief Editor's Blog

At My Grandson’s Bris: Hanukkah, Self-Sacrifice and the Infinite

The mohel instructed me to hold the baby’s legs tight, thrusting me into the reality of what was unfolding.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion and Hanukkah: Is the Date More than a Coincidence?

When major events occur on identical dates, God is winking at us.

Hanukkah: Seeing Beyond the Surface

Why is Hanukkah called the holiday of vision?

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Hanukkah & Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital

May the Maccabees’ fire of idealism guide us to create a united Jerusalem recognized by all people as Israel’s capital.

Hanukkah: The Holiday of Peace

Why that small flask of pure oil is like the heart of every Jew.

Jewish Grit and Hanukkah

The incredible power of adding one consistent light at a time.

Chief Editor's Blog

Natalie Portman's Christmas Tree

The actress's desire for a Christmas tree isn't trivial. It represents the contemporary Jew's struggle to hold onto her Jewish identity.

Holy Jewish Chutzpah

When it comes to spirituality, never take no for an answer.

The 5 Best Hanukkah Gifts to Give to Your Children

This year, give the greatest gifts money can’t buy.

Three Lights: Hanukkah, Shabbat and Havdallah

Understanding Judaism’s requirement to generate light on three different occasions.

A Timeless Gift for Hanukkah

For eight days, the glow of our menorah will be augmented by the darkness of my smartphone.

Timeless Hanukkah: A Graphic Article

The miracle is still happening today.

8 Ways to Turn Darkness into Light

This Hanukkah choose to create your own miracles.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Never Give Up Hope

Why relight the menorah when reason dictated that a day later it would go dark once again?

Hanukkah’s Last Light

Dispelling five myths that block us from connecting to God.

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