Cultural Migrations of a Hanukkah Pilgrimage

Elli Fischer explores the ideological components of developments in Hanukkah traditions.

The Making of “Lights”

Shmuel Klitsner's insider perspectives on making a Hanukkah classic.

The Quest for an Objective Halakhic Standard by which to Judge Artistic Expression: A...

Does halakhah have something to say about the subjectivity of aesthetic experience? Yosie Levine investigates the case of fashioning a replica Temple Menorah as adjudicated in the eighteenth century and what it can tell us about halachic thinking about art and aesthetics.

On Candlelight

Media culture scholar, Matt Sienkiewicz, reflects on the Maccabeats phenomenon and the group's first viral smash.

You light candles

In his latest poem, Bruce Black meditates on the Chanukah miracle and the miracles of everyday life