Chanukah and Hanukkah refer to the same holiday, and both are correct spellings for the Jewish Festival of Lights. While the ...

Living in a culture that largely closes down each Dec. 25, many Jews have found ways of making meaning in the day – be that ...

Vast majority of secular Israelis light Hanukkah candles, attributing cultural and family values ​​to the custom.

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

Songwriter Jordan Wax’s previous album had heavier subject matter but here he shows that Yiddish culture can be silly, too ...

What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a ...

Once a highly influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, the urban center is now home to just several hundred Jews, ...

The classical liberal arts school in Michigan is “a blessed reprieve from the moral and intellectual rot of Portland,” visiting professor Michael Weingrad told JNS.The post Hillsdale College reportedl ...

The author of a new prayer book for non-theistic Jews imagines a holiday that doesn't celebrate military might or the ...

Some in the Jewish state fantasize about leaving the stresses of the Mideast, as North Americans and Europeans look for a safer address from antisemitism.The post Israelis want ...

The holidays became easier when my children could meaningfully participate in religious and household rituals.