Nathaniel Rothstein, the hero of Lucas Schaefer’s The Slip, is violent, sexually frustrated, and racially envious. He’s also ...

The Village Voice review of Lucas Schaefer’s ‘The Slip’ reports that is a character-based novel brimming with outrageous characters.

Hanukkah for me is a link between the past and a redeemed or post-revolutionary future. The candles Sarah lights are the cheap kind I grew up with — corkscrewed and fragile, fast burning and messy.

Perhaps, but Hanukkah is still a minor religious holiday, not a Jewish “yom tov,” which translates to “good day” but, in religious terms, means the holiday was not handed to the Jewish ...

This Hanukkah, Choose Light Over Heat. Dec. 25, 2024. Credit... Amir Hamja/The New York Times. ... wrote in a 1979 book that the rabbis had a choice to make regarding the message of Hanukkah: ...

Temple Israel pop-up Hanukkah volunteer Liz Rice surveys children's books on Monday. ... Jewish families gather at the dinner table each night of Hanukkah and light a candle on the menorah together.

Cantor Harold Brindell, left, lights candles as Rabbi Joel Lehrfield, right, looks on during the ceremony for the 12th annual Hanukkah Festival on Dec. 1, 1956, at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago.

12 Hanukkah Books to Light Up Your TBR List This Season. Check out our staff favorite Hanukkah-themed mystery, romance, historical fiction, nonfiction and kids books . By. Lizz Schumer.

To celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas, Max and Sophie, siblings in an interfaith family, bake up a batch of gingerbread dreidels. That’s the plot of a new children’s book out this year, but it ...

Fast Forward New children’s books for Hanukkah channel 2024’s unusual Christmas convergence Also out this year: a picture book about a unique menorah used at the White House.

Hanukkah is the eight-day celebration that involves family, worship, gift exchanges and, of course, food. Starting at sundown on Tuesday, Jewish families will light the first candle on their menorahs.