On the first day of Hanukkah, the public menorah in front of Alameda City Hall was found torn down and smashed. Next to it, the city’s Christmas tree had…
It wouldn’t have been a first-night Hanukkah celebration in this year of tumult without at least something unexpected happening. Sure enough, as Rabbi…
A synagogue in Tomsk, a Siberian city in Russia, has unveiled a giant Hanukkah menorah made of ice. The 10-foot menorah was erected Tuesday inside the…
2020 has one thing going for it: This year’s Hanukkah messages from the United States’ top leaders were ample, and for the first time included a Jewish…
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Hanukkah recalls a time more than 2,000 years ago…
To cries of “four more years,” President Donald Trump told guests at a White House Hanukkah party that he could stay in office “if certain people have…
Jewish Twitter was not amused by a New York Times op-ed by an author saying why she no longer celebrates Hanukkah. Sarah Prager, an historian of LGBTQ…
The latest single by Nissim Black, a pathbreaking Orthodox hip-hop artist, reimagines what may be the mostly widely known Jewish song. “The Hava Song,”…
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. We just got word about a new tiny-batch ice cream operation in Oakland…