It’s Christmas Eve, and we find ourselves thinking about gifts. After all, tonight Santa Claus will shimmy down chimneys across the globe, leaving presents wrapped in paper and bows for the good girls and boys. And tonight and tomorrow, families will gather and exchange ...
by Bliss Goldstein Twenty years ago, I moved from L.A. to San Francisco and then Bellingham, Wash. — so far north I could spit across the border and a Canadian would apologize for being too close. For the longest time I regretted the move from areas with strong synagogues and ...
by Rabbi Joe Hample There is no better-known Jewish object than the dreidel, the top that we spin at Chanukkah, with Hebrew letters on the four sides. Together with gelt — coins (or candy coins) given as a Chanukkah present — the dreidel recalls the gambling games supposedly played ...
He can do without this Zoom stuff, even if he has gotten pretty good at it. So go the Hanukkah thoughts these days of Rabbi Joe Hample, of Morgantown’s Tree of Life Congregation. This year’s observance, which began at sundown Nov. 28, concludes at sundown Monday. Come dusk today, ...
by Richard Cohen This year Chanukah began three nights after Thanksgiving. Oy Veh! While we were still stuffing ourselves with leftovers — turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie — in the Jewish community, we started planning meals including the ...
Serve this Hanukkah staple with applesauce or sour cream By Anne Braly Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. (TNS) I’ve always loved potato pancakes, but not until my Jewish son-in-law began making potato latkes for our Christmas Day brunch a few years back did I have some that were ...