hanukkah-2020

COMMENTARY

Hanukkah’s true meaning is about Jewish survival | Opinion

BY: - December 15, 2020

While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in America today of what one might refer to as Hanukkah kitsch, this assessment misses the social and theological significance of Hanukkah within Judaism itself.

COMMENTARY

How Hanukkah came to be an annual White House celebration | Opinion

BY: - December 6, 2020

What is truly significant, however, is how much America has changed since Presidents John Adams and Calvin Coolidge invented America’s White House Christmas traditions and paid no attention to Hanukkah at all.