Ideas The Persian winter solstice tradition of Yalda pairs perfectly with Hanukkah A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without fried donuts.
Ideas 8 candles, 80 opinions: The many meanings of an American Hanukkah A holiday that celebrates militarism and rejects assimilation — and vice versa — raises questions that occupy us this year, writes the head of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.
Ideas What my relatives’ Christmas celebrations taught me about observing Hanukkah A rabbi feels “the value of being in community with people who were different from me.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams calls himself ‘a modern-day Maccabee’ at pre-Hanukkah party at Gracie Mansion
Lifestyle A Jewish couple created a disco-ball menorah to mark this year’s Hanukkah-New Year’s overlap
Israel From Kibbutz Be’eri to the White House, menorahs retrieved from Oct. 7 wreckage light up for Hanukkah
United States ‘All about light overcoming darkness’: How US Jews are celebrating Hanukkah with Israel at war
Politics This Hanukkah, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will have 3 menorahs that represent Jewish joy and trauma