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Topic: Hanukkah

March 25, 2013
11:19 am

Not everyone gives Midrash Manicures two thumbs-up. (photo credit: Facebook)

‘Mani’ ways to celebrate Passover

Creative rabbi takes a hands-on approach to celebrating the Exodus from Egypt

By Renee Ghert-Zand

January 6, 2013
11:03 pm

The son of a Jewish refugee from Iraq, Elan Carr temporarily lived in the country as an officer in the US army. (Eytan Rait)

Iraqi past trails former frat boy to Israel, LA and Saddam’s former palace

Now a prosecutor and the head of the world’s largest Jewish fraternity, Elan Carr has drawn on his painful family history in each phase of life

By Tracy Frydberg

January 2, 2013
3:47 pm

Tunisian state secretary for immigration Houcine El Jaziri (photo credit: screen capture/Youtube)

Merry Christmas, ya Jews!

Tunisia’s state secretary for immigration gets his holidays confused

December 24, 2012
2:10 pm

How Jews celebrate Christmas

It’s not just a day for Chinese spare ribs, it’s crucially a season to learn and decide who we are

By Harold Berman

December 23, 2012
6:32 pm

A woman celebrates the New Year in Israel, January 1, 2012. (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Haifa to go ahead with New Year’s celebrations despite threats by party pooper

City municipality quick to recall letter from rabbi that warns hotels and halls not to display non-Jewish symbols during celebrations

By Stuart Winer

December 15, 2012
8:53 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights Hanukkah candles in the Old City on Saturday, the last night of the festival (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

‘The Western Wall and the State of Israel will be ours forever,’ says Netanyahu

Lighting eighth candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, prime minister responds to Palestinian claims that Kotel is ‘occupied territory’

By Yifa Yaakov and Aaron Kalman

December 14, 2012
6:23 am

An actor with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation speaking to the soldiers on their way to the Western Wall (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

The IDF marches ‘in the footsteps of the Maccabees’

Givati Brigade soldiers are taken from their frontline posts outside Gaza and brought to Jerusalem for some Hanukkah-themed education

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 14, 2012
4:51 am

US President Barack Obama greets people as he stands next to a lit menorah during the Hanukkah reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Obama celebrates Hanukkah at White House

Presidential ceremony includes lighting 90-year-old menorah from Long Island that survived Hurricane Sandy

By Stacy A. Anderson

December 14, 2012
3:45 am

In the name of non-profits, Elie Klein has been eating dozens of donuts since before the start of Hanukkah. (photo credit: Courtesy of Yissachar Ruas)

Hanukkah binge on donuts, donations

An immigrant to Israel is scarfing down ‘sufganiyot’ to raise money for worthy causes

By Renee Ghert-Zand

December 13, 2012
5:01 pm

Kindling the lights of diversity

To those who want to coerce us into unity, we say let our creativity shine

By William Kolbrener and Elie Jesner

December 12, 2012
3:26 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference at the Ministry of Education, presenting the results of international academic test rankings on Monday, December 11 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Reality check

Liberman scolds, nurses’ strike holds and academic ranking story unfolds

By Ron Friedman

December 11, 2012
9:38 pm

Chabad asks Arizona to allow inmates to light menorahs

State Department of Corrections says practice would present a security risk and lead to demands from other prisoners

December 11, 2012
9:50 am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Liberman calls for Israeli troops to respond with lethal fire when attacked by PA police

Foreign minister also compares Europe’s silence on Mashaal’s call for jihad against Israel to its inaction during Holocaust