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1/17/2025 Top Pick

Martin Luther King Day in Boston

By Meet Boston

(Photo: Creative Commons)

1/7/2025 Top Pick

Jewish Resources for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Resources for honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

By Shira BurnsFor My Jewish Learning

Group of kids school volunteer charity environment

1/7/2025 Top Pick

Teaching Children About Tikkun Olam on MLK Day

The possibilities for practicing tikkun olam with young children are limitless.

By PJ Library

Andrew Burke-Stevenson

12/25/2024 Top Pick

Boston Marks First Night of Hanukkah

More than 100 people gathered for the 41st annual menorah lighting on Boston Common, celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas with unity and light.

By Adam SennottFor The Boston Globe

Erin Clark

12/21/2024 Top Pick

For Some Interfaith Families, a Special Holiday Season

For the first time in almost 20 years, Hanukkah falls on Christmas Day, a rare quirk of the calendar that has occurred only four times since 1900.

By Nick StoicoFor The Boston Globe

Sarah Levitin Chrismukkah

12/18/2024 Top Pick

Hanukkah’s Arrival on Christmas Renews ‘Chrismukkah’

How interfaith families celebrate, blend and balance holiday traditions.

By Jacob GurvisFor Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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12/18/2024 Top Pick

Welcoming the Light in This Season of Darkness

In 2024, Hanukkah and Christmas share a rare and meaningful overlap, both beginning on Dec. 25.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor WBUR

(Photo: iStock/SHODOgraphy)

6/12/2023 Top Pick

Juneteenth and Torah: Liberation Through Water

The federal U.S. holiday offers a chance to try to understand how we got so emotionally stagnant—so dry—as to enslave other human beings.

By Stacey Aviva FlintFor The Times of Israel

Cute wooden blocks calendar with Juneteenth National Independence Day June, 19 date with US flag.

6/12/2023 Top Pick

A Conservative Juneteenth Haggadah

The celebration of Juneteenth that incorporates aspects reminiscent of the Passover seder by Jewish Black Americans on individual or small community bases is not new.

By The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

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6/12/2023 Top Pick

Juneteenth: Kiddush Over Red Drink

Juneteenth is my Black story in that I’m Black American, and it’s an American story. But it’s not my personal one.

By Gulienne Rollins-RishonFor Exploring Judaism

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