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Chanukah

They Light Up Your Life

Chanukah Gift Guide 2012

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Elyse Glickman, Special Sections Feature

Innovative designers are broadening and updating the ways those observing Chanukah can pay tribute to the miraculous endurance of the fabled lighting oil with chanukiah that capture the holiday spirit in a contemporary manner.

Chanukah

What Would Judah Buy?

Chanukah Gift Guide 2012

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Elyse Glickman, Special Sections Feature

Maccabee was a serious warrior, but surely he would have appreciated these Chanukah samples of fun. After all, he is associated with Games.

Chanukah

Making Book on Latkes and Lights

Chanukah Gift Guide 2012

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Rachel Vigoda, Special Sections Feature

Rosh Hashanah ushers in the New Year. Yom Kippur is time to atone. We celebrate the harvest during Sukkot and commemorate receiving the Torah at Shavuot. And Chanukah is for — presents.

Chanukah

Unusual Gifts

Chanukah Gift Guide 2012

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Lauren Kramer, Special Sections Feature

As Chanukah appears on the horizon, our thoughts inevitably turn to two things: gifts — and fatty foods. If you’ve distributed all the socks, dreidels and menorahs in years past and are all out of ideas, rest assured, there’s more out there.

History & Nostalgia

The Secret Life of Letters

Decoding the Torah through gematria

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Melissa Jacobs, Inside Feature

If God wrote you a letter, would you read it? Well, God did, and you have. The letter is the Torah. For centuries, Jews have been reading the Torah again and again, poring through its stories, its heroes and villains, its messages and meanings. What about the language in which the letter is written? What about the Hebrew alphabet? The...