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Chanukah Resources

This Chanukah, light up your celebration with any of AJWS's resources — readings, activities and more to enrich your family's holiday.

Explore a wide variety of AJWS’s Chanukah resources below and share your commitment to social justice
with students, friends and family.

Chanukah Readings & Lessons from the Sources

Explore what Chanukah can teach us about social justice in the modern world with these interactive text studies.

Eight Days of Oil and Seven Years of Famine

Jewish Justice Resource

Development, Globalization and the Miracle of the Maccabees

Got Gelt?

A Lesson for Middle Schoolers

Chag v'Chesed

Each year, we invite Jewish community leaders from around the world to share what Chanukah means to them. Enjoy these Chanukah commentaries — and bring their lessons to your families as you celebrate this year.

5780 Commentary

By Sarah Hurwitz

5778 Commentary

By David Gregory

5777 Commentary

By Rabbi Rick Jacobs

5776 Commentary

By AJWS President and CEO Robert Bank

5775 Commentary

By Congressman Eliot Engel

5774 Commentary

By Rabbi Steve Greenberg

5773 Commentary

By Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna

5772 Commentary

By Idit Klein

5771 Commentary

By Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg

5770 Commentary

By Rabbi Michael Paley

5769 Commentary

By Rabbi Rachel Cowan

5768 Commentary

By Rabbi David Ellenson