Many of them were Christmas cookies, Milgrom said, for friends who were not Jewish. “She would sell the cookies as well,” she added. “There were many that were Hanukkah cookies; one of her ...

Christmas cookies will be decorated side by side with Hanukkah cookies. What these family celebrations have in common is how the cultural underpinnings of two different traditions can make room ...

the Weiss-Pires household demonstrates how traditions can blend seamlessly — baking gingerbread cookies alongside rugelach (a Jewish holiday treat), while both Christmas carols and Hanukkah ...

Cookies made for Chanukah by a member of ... 75, of Roslyn, said of Christmas. Hanukkah “has great significance, but not like when Christ was born.” Despite the differing importance in the ...

I missed the milk and cookies for Santa. I missed being the kid myself ... Family traditions: upheld! Hanukkah chez nous; Christmas chez vous. Then one year, when we headed over to my dad’s to ...

Christmas! Hanukkah! The battle rages on ... Latkes vs. Christmas cookies. That’s like trying to choose between your children. (My favorite child, by the way, is [redacted].) ...

It is the first time in about 20 years that Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah line up on the ... an afternoon of activities including cookie decorating and designing gem dreidels and ...

The Christmas-Hanukkah blend, often called “Chrismukkah ... At a table in the back of the room, children decorated holiday cookies and made ornaments. While the kids were at work, their ...

Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.