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Chanukah Laws & Customs This year, we usher in Chanukah by lighting the first candle on Tuesday evening, December 4. The Anonymous Priest By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Among the Jews who dared to light Chanukah candles in the Nazi concentration camps was a 12 year old boy in Auschwitz. Jewish Wellsprings by Miriam Karp The recent growth of Chabad Centers in the most distant places has prompted a major building boom of new mikvahs in the most unexpected locations. Time for Superheroes By: Rabbi Simcha Weinstein Some comics mirrors the sad reality that for many young Jews, the ancient story of Chanukah feels, well, pretty ancient. Father was Wrong By Renee Sussman A brass menorah returns to the family to be used on Chanukah. The Post Office Miracle By Ruby Ginsberg Eight Hanukah dreidle stamp sheets - would the clerk find them? Call me Rivka by Ted Roberts Rivka was as Jewish as Judah the Maccabee’s mother. But for most of her life, she had never heard of Chanukah.			The Physics of Chanukah By Rabbi Simon Jacobson The essential miracle – and message – of Chanukah is the dominance of light over dark, of spiritual radiance over material gloom. With Flying Colors By Amy Klein Color therapy uses color to balance a person's physical, emotional, spiritual or mental energies. Matzo Meal & Cottage Cheese Latkes This delicious recipe combines two traditional food choices for Chanukah: Eating dairy foods, and foods fried in oil. Salty Taffy By Marion Fish Salt water taffy elicits fond memories of carefree seaside fun, hovering gulls and vast expanses of sand and horizon. The Light that Never Burns Out by Rabbi Moss There is something about a candle that makes it more a spiritual element than physical. Single Socks by Kim Schneiderman When folding my laundry, I become aware of my single socks, the ones that become separated from their mate. For the previous year's Chanukah articles, click here >>>