The 23rd edition of the Jewish Heritage Online Magazine is a SPECIAL HANNUKAH Edition.   Enjoy the following articles: About the month of Kislev: Important facts and figures Winter solstice: Chasing the darkness: Thoughts on the shortest day of the year HANUKKAH basics Origins of the festival of Hanukkah: The miracle and the revolt: Changing attitudes Seven times Hanukkah: Commemoration of seven important events in Jewish history Hanukkah acrostics: Word games and literary ways to chronicle a victory The world is like a dreidel or How the rabbis Judaized the spinning top The unfamiliar psalms of Mattathias and Judah: Passionate poetry from the First Book of Maccabees "Lo, the conquering hero cometh": The story of Handel's Judas Maccabeus and an historic choral performance Isaiah the prophet meets Socrates the philosopher: The Hebraic and the Hellenic view of life Miracles for a broken planet: Recalling a childhood Hanukkah on the eve of the Holocaust A Hebrew Lesson: Rootword H-N-KH Please visit our new ARTS section. There are several new (free) electronic Hanukkah greeting cards which we encourage you to send to friends and family. Enter THE JEWISH HERITAGE ONLINE MAGAZINE