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Tag: Chanukah
Potato Latkes for Chanukah
How to make your own homemade Potato Latkes! When the Maccabee’s successfully defeated the Syrian-Greek enemy, they found only one sealed flask of pure extra virgin olive oil in the Temple in order to light the Temple Menorah. There was only enough oil to last one night, but the miracle was, that one flask…
Chanukah – Bringing Light to the World
The Festival of Chanukah falls in the Hebrew month of Kislev. Shorter days and longer nights symbolize spiritual darkness and it’s our job to bring spiritual light back into the world during this season. Two thousand two hundred years ago the Syrian Greeks controlled the Land of Israel and feared a national uprising by the…
Easy Homemade Chanukah Jelly Donuts – Sufganiot
In the diaspora, we traditionally fried Potato Latkes for Chanukah. When we moved to Israel, I discovered the fried favorite food for Chanukah are sufganiot – strawberry jelly-filled donuts sprinkled with icing sugar. I’ve never made sufganiot before so I searched for an easy recipe that I hoped would be yummy. I found an amazing…
From Judah to Judah Maccabee
It was Matityahu (Mattathias) from the Hasmonaean priestly family who initiated
Seeing Beyond the Physical with the Chanukah Lights
Here is a guest post from Rivky, one of my young seminary students
Sweden, Chanukah and Jewish Identity
Jews must abandon their Jewish identity to become Swedes The holidays are over but we want to focus your attention on an event that caused a minor storm during Chanukah, but was probably glossed over by most people because we were all so busy preparing and celebrating. Deputy-Speaker of the Swedish government, Bjorn Soder made…
