(JTA) — Games of dreidel and the consumption of potato latkes and jelly donuts might obscure the deeper meanings of Hanukkah that Americans — Jews and non-Jews — need this year more than ever before. Hanukkah is a holiday marked by conflicting values in unresolved tension with each other. It mirrors how many American Jews […]
Rabbi Leon Morris
Rabbi Leon Morris is president of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and lives in Jerusalem.