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Bright Baby Touch and Feel: Hanukkah

This is an ideal first board book to share with your baby or toddler as a first step to discovering Hanukkah traditions. The pages feature familiar Hanukkah images, such as lighting candles, eating latkes and playing dreidel, and there are lots of different touch-and-feel textures, which little fingers will love to explore.

What Do You See on Chanukah?

A fun way for toddlers to learn Chanukah vocabulary! Teach your toddler about Chanukah with this bright and colorful word-and-picture book. Children will learn basic vocabulary while becoming familiar with the objects and concepts that are unique to this special time of year. Goldy says: “This series has pictures of babies and objects that go […]

Hannukah Pre-filled Menorah Oil

Many people love the beauty of olive oil candles, but don't want to deal with the mess. Pre-filled olive oil candles solve this problem. We prefer the EZ Lights brand for two reasons: 1) The container is plastic, not glass, which is safer 2) The olive oil is gelled, so there is no mess. Each […]

Hannukah Gelt

Mmmmm….Don’t know about you, but when we think of Hannukah, we think of chocolate… What’s Hannukah without chocolate gelt? We’ve selected a brand that will appeal to all Jews, including those who keep strictly kosher. Here is a wikipedia article on the history of gelt, and here is the best gelt video on youtube. Goldy says: […]

Hannukah Candles

Q: What’s a menorah without candles? A: A fancy paperweight. Channukah is the festival of lights, right? You can go to your local grocery store and buy the cheap wax candles, or you can beautify the mitzvah with these gorgeous candles.  The box includes 45 hand-dipped candles in festive layers of colors and accents. These […]

Hannukah Menorahs

Our picks of the best Menorahs at various price levels:• Stunning beautiful traditional: Regal Menorah• Laser Cut Metal: Jerusalem Menorah• Stylish modern: Fused Glass• Artistic wood: Jerusalem Dreidels Menorah• Shiny traditional: Brass Menorah• Channuka kit (menorah, candles, dreidels, handbook) Complete Hannuka SetNeed something to light with?For candles click here. For oil click here. Goldy says: […]

Book of Our Heritage

This may be the most important set of books in a Jewish home! Kitov explores the holidays, feasts and fast days of the Jewish calendar and explains their laws and customs. He also adds extremely interesting Midrashic commentaries and insights of great Jewish thinkers and spiritual leaders.This set makes a wonderful bar or bat mitzvah […]