Tradition links the dreidel back to the time of the persecution of the Jews by the Seleucid Greeks, the villains of the Hanukkah story. Rabbi Gamliel Rabinowitz spins a Dreidel on the third night ...

If they feared they were about to be discovered, they would hide the Torah and bring out the dreidel to play. Hanukkah gelt means ‘Hanukkah money’ in Yiddish. Families often give children ...

People usually play with a four-sided spinning top called a dreidel and exchange gifts. Yes! The word Hanukkah (or Channukah) is a transliteration from Hebrew. Transliteration is the conversion of ...

To celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas, Max and Sophie, siblings in an interfaith family, bake up a batch of gingerbread dreidels. That’s the plot of a new children’s book out this year ...

My kids love the classic Hebrew Hanukkah song 'Sevivon' (which is the Hebrew word for dreidel, the four-sided spinning top that is customary to play with on Hanukkah) - not least because it gives ...

Award-winning writer and poet Leslea Newman (“Heather Has Two Mommies”) and artist Amy Husband capture the warmth of Hanukkah’s glow with gleaming candles, crispy latkes and “Dreidels ...