Category - Hanukkah

Christmas • Hanukkah • Holidays • Perspective

Interfaith teen celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas

December 29, 2019

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by Isabel Slippen

Croton-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A. – Growing up, I was raised to celebrate both Hanukkah and...

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