How to spell Chanukah 18 writers celebrate 8 nights of lights
Summary
Overview: "What a holiday! No pestilence, no slavery, no locusts, no cattle disease or atonement. No synagogue, no guilt, no mortar, and no real lesson to be absorbed and passed down to my Jewish offspring. Thank God," writes Joshua Braff, one of eighteen Jewish writers who extol, excoriate, and exp... Full description
- Introduction: Hanu Channuk Chanukah / Emily Franklin
- Blue Team / Joshua Braff
- Creature Comfies / Joshua Neuman
- Week at a glance / Elisa Albert
- Chanukah your hearts out! / Steven Almond
- Guinea pig / Jennifer Gilmore
- Only Dreidel in Idaho / Jill Kargman
- Rock of ages / Jonathan Tropper
- Traditions break / Eric Orner
- Oak Street, 1981 / Peter Orner
- Dolls of the world / Joanna Smith Rakoff
- Chanukah Glutton / Tova Mirvis
- My peaceful and glorious brothers / Edward Schwarzschild
- Oh, Lord - Oh, Lourdes - Alors! / Mameve Medwed
- My Father's Menorah / Adam Langer
- Israeli Chanukah / Amy Klein
- Presents! / Ben Schrank
- Light, the sword, and the Nintendo DS / Karen E Bender and Robert Athony Siegel
- Eight Nights / Laura Dave
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