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Sammy Spider’s First Hanukkah

Sammy watches longingly as Josh Shapiro lights another candle and receives a brightly-colored dreidel each night of Hanukkah. "Spiders don't spin dreidels, spiders spin webs!" Sammy's mother reminds him. Then on the last night, Sammy gets his own spinning surprise. We recommend the Sammy series stories primarily for the engaging thematic illustrations.

Chanukah Light Up The Nights

This best-selling Chanukah album was produced with brand new songs by the world famous musical legend, Yerachmiel Begun (pronounced "be-GUN"). It contains both full orchestral/choral and karoke versions. Fabulous for Chanuka parties. 10 awesome tracks: 1) Light Up The Nights 2) Ma Oz Tzur 3) Al Hanisim 4) Ya' aleh V'yovoh 5) Chanukah Music/ Karoke […]

Plastic Dreidels

Hannukah just wouldn't be the same without a fun game of dreidel!   For a video tutorial on how to play dreidel, click here. Goldy says: "Dreidel is a fun game, spinning, winning and spending time with your family."

Chanukah Menorah Play Set

This wooden menorah is an educational toy that helps kids learn about Hanukkah. It includes: nine colorful wooden “candles” that children can arrange on the menorah a candle pouch for storage and easy access! Nine candles in seven bright colors bring this replica of the Hanukkah Menorah to life. Goldy: “Fun for little kids!”

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 […]