5 easy ways to get the smell of fried latkes out of your house
by Shannon Sarna (This article originally appeared in The Nosher.) – Everyone loves eating latkes. Some people don’t even mind frying the latkes. Almost everyone loathes…
Holiday Columns
Meet the rabbi-and-sabermetrician duo behind Virtual Dreidel, a game made for pandemic Hanukkah
by Philissa Cramer (JTA) — Back in the spring, when Jewish camps all canceled their summer sessions seemingly overnight, Rabbi Shayna Golkow knew she wanted to…
I knew Hanukkah celebrated defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens and the story got complicated.
by Rabbi Eliran Shabo ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — When my wife and I arrived in this capital city on Sept. 1 to serve as rabbinical…
From the Sources: Happy Herod’s Day
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The first-century C.E. Latin satirist Persius Flaccus devoted one of his poems to the theme that even persons who are…
Fellow residents help Erica Karabus celebrate Chanukah at Calgary’s Manor Village at Signature Park
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – She may be the only Jewish resident at Calgary’s Manor Village at Signature Park, but Erica Karabus is enjoying a…