Rabbi Binyomin Halpern: Celebrating Food
by Rabbi Binyomin Halpern (AJNews) – A number of years ago, as an older student in the WITS Yeshiva in Milwaukee, I would learn once…
Holiday Columns
Rabbi Mark Glickman: My least popular suggestion
By Rabbi Mark Glickman (AJNews) – It was the least popular suggestion I’d ever made during the many years of my rabbinate, and the people…
Rabbi Leonard Cohen: Bayamim Hahem Bazman Hazeh – In Ancient Days, Just as Now
by Rabbi Leonard Cohen (AJNews) – On Erev Hanukkah, we read the Torah portion Vayeshev about Joseph and his 11 brothers. While these events took place…
Cantor Russ Jayne: Hanukkah – The Most Universal of Messages
By Cantor Russ Jayne (AJNews) – We Jews know that stories are not simple things. As a people, we tell tales that place us in…
Finding meaning in our Hanukkah rituals
by Rachel Jager and Debbie Kornberg (JNF-USA) – While the leaves are still changing color in the northern hemisphere, it’s hard to believe that Hanukkah…