Is Giving Presents a Jewish Tradition?

By Elizabeth Zakaim December 30, 2016

Gift-giving on Chanukah is so popular a custom that we rarely stop to think about it. Why do we do it? Are we just copying Christmas, or is there some Jewish tradition present in the act of gift-giving? (No pun intended.) To find out how gift-giving became such a prominent aspect of Chanukah, we have…

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PHY: Gifts For Those Who Shit Gold

By Simi Lichtman December 13, 2012

This article is the sixth in the series “Procrastination HaYom”– a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that A, but everything to help keep you sane during finals time.   It’s Chanukah, that wonderfully spiritual season of freaking out about what to get everyone who…

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The Best Chanukah Gifts You Should Never Buy

By Simi Lichtman December 5, 2012

It’s Chanukah again, and unless you want to buy your friends a chocolate Santa (they are kosher…) the Jewish gift options are usually limited to yet another funky dreidel. Not that that’s bad. Dreidel is a highly underrated game. But most people already have at least one plastic dreidel they can dredge up from their…

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