Hallmark keeps getting Hanukkah wrong. Two Forward writers pitch one that understands Judaism — and why it resists being Christmas-adjacent.

Ma’oz Tzur insists that Jewish memory is not linear progress but recurring danger. That insistence matters after Bondi.

As the midwinter darkness enfolds us, we can make time for contemplation as much as action, prayer as much as protest.

The shape of the menorah – and of the hanukkiah – teaches us that while we all may be diverse branches, we derive from a ...