Kesher Talk

Hanukkah - una kandelika. The Festival of Lights begins tonight, and it's also Shabbat. Lots of candle-lighting going on - More on how to do it correctly.

Here's a great resource on Hanukkah, and here are some upscale recipes (i.e. non-greasy yam latkes with mustard seeds and curry) for the holiday. Omigod: a frightening number of latke recipes.

Variations on transliteration of the name of the holiday. (i.e. how to spell it.)

UPDATE: I'm lighting a virtual text menorah every day on this blog, but Meryl is lighting a virtual visual menorah on hers. Check in with her as she adds a candle every day. Our menorahs are very similar: the brass/turquoise coating and general design, and mine has a similar Lion of Judah, but in a plastic insert that looks like mosaic. I wonder if they came from the same manufacturer. I've had my menorah since I was about five - there's a black&white picture of me and my little brother lighting ours in our first house in Dallas.

posted by Judith @ 12/19/2003 03:13:00 PM