Hanukkah Specials On-Demand
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PBS NewsHour
Armed Forces Members Celebrate Hanukkah Through Song
Over the past few years PBS NEWSHOUR has asked a little known Defense Department unit called the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS, to produce a holiday song in which service personnel from around the world sing. In 2022 they produced a Hanukkah song to mark the beginning of the holiday.
Colorado Voices
Celebrating Hanukkah Traditions
Daniel Seigel with Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver speaks about the way Jewish Americans celebrate Hanukkah.
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MPB Classics
Hanukkah (1973)
A half-hour documentary on The Jewish Festival of Lights: Hanukkah. Ed Asner tells the origin of the holiday, its riveting history, and its modern-day customs.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Hanukkah (2001)
Hanukkah is a holiday of freedom, recalling the successful Jewish revolt against the Syrians who had conquered and occupied Jerusalem. We heard the story at the home of Rabbi Bentzion Geisinsky, in Potomac, Maryland.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Hanukkah (2002)
Susan Braunstein, Curator of Archaeology and Judaica at the Jewish Museum of New York, explains the traditions of Hanukkah.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Hanukkah Lamps
“The rabbis going back to Maimonides and earlier felt that the lights of the Hanukkah lamp were sacred,” according to Susan Braunstein, curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, and if you couldn’t afford a gold or silver lamp “you could use an egg shell, or a nut shell, or a potato carved out.”
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Hanukkah's Light
Hanukkah is "a good time to think about the miracles in our own lives," according to Dr. Erica Brown of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Hanukkah Oil Workshop
Rabbi Mendy Bukiet and his wife Chanie of Bradenton, Florida talked with Jewish children about the significance of oil and the menorah lights in the miracle of Hanukkah.
Maryland Farm & Harvest
Holiday Episode
Join hosts Joanne Clendining and Al Spoler as they explore how Maryland farms contribute to holiday cheer. Visit a farm that creates handmade Christmas wreaths. Learn how one farmer is growing grain for a Hanukkah treat. Also, the history of holiday plants on Then & Now, and gingerbread cookies on The Local Buy.
Tennessee Life
Holiday Traditions
Tennessee Life brings you celebrations of the holiday season. We learn more about the history of Hanukkah and how some students are blending tradition and modern technology. We join a glassblower at the furnace as he crafts ornaments by the thousands. And meet a woman who teaches people how to make natural wreaths as part of her holiday tradition.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Interfaith Holiday Traditions
When Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day, the growing number of interfaith families who observe both holidays face an unusual challenge. We visited the Miller family in Takoma Park, Maryland, to find out how they're handling this "December dilemma."
One Detroit
Menorah in the D, Mochitsuki, Michigan northern lights
“Menorah in the D” kicks off this year’s Hanukkah celebration; the Japanese art of pounding rice for the new year. Photographer Shawn Malone talks about Michigan’s northern lights. Plus, Detroit Opera Artistic Director Yuval Sharon discusses the opera’s one night only Aida in Concert.
The Set List
Nefesh Mountain: A Hanukkah Holiday Concert
Acclaimed bluegrass band Nefesh Mountain performs a set of originals, covers and Hanukkah songs by Woody Guthrie. Recorded live at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, N.Y.
Potato Latkes
Potato latkes are a tradition at Hanukkah, and Rabbi Moshe Luchins shares his favorite way to make them with us!
NJTV News
Rutgers Professor Talks History of Hanukkah in America
It may be an old holiday, but the Hanukkah we commonly celebrate in America is a relatively new creation.