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Hanukkah Reads

JBC Staff
November 27, 2012
Hanukkah is around the cor­ner! Enjoy the reads below and check out our longer Hanukkah read­ing list here.


Cel­e­brat­ing the Jew­ish Year: Win­ter Hol­i­days — Hanukkah, Tu B’She­vat, Purim

How to Spell Chanukah and Oth­er Hol­i­day Dilem­mas: Eigh­teen Writ­ers Cel­e­brate Eight Nights of Lights

Can I Have a Cell Phone For Hanukkah?

Play­ing Drei­del With Judah Maccabee

The Gold­en Dreydl

A Hanukkah Present

 
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