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Hanukkah: Top 10 Sites
Guide picks
These ten Jewish Sites offer quality comprehensive information about Hanukkah. They offer in-depth coverage of a great range of Hanukkah topics.

About Hanukkah
All the basics about Hanukkah in one friendly site. Light the menorah, spin the dreidel, eat the latkas, and shop the sales. Also includes a challenging Who Wants To Be A Maccabee Quiz.

Aish.com Chanukah Site
Highly recommended. How-to Guide includes blessings, lighting instructions, recipes and more. Articles categorized under Chanukah Basics, Deeper Themes, True Stories, Menorah Data, Spiritual Growth, and Macabee Battles. Also offers Chanukah songs, greeting cards, and family pages.

Chabad Lubavitch: Virtual Chanukah
View simultaneous Chanukah menorah lightings around the world. Site also includes games, stories, recipes, essays, and more.

EverythingJewish: Chanukah
Guide to the history, heroes, villains, laws and customs surrounding this celebration of Jewish survival. Provides a concise, understandable retelling of the Hanukkah story making this a terrific resource for parents and educators.

Jewish Heritage Magazine: Hanukkah
The 23rd edition of the Jewish Heritage Online Magazine is a special Hanukkah edition. Articles include: About the Month of Kislev, Winter Solstice: Chasing the Darkness, Hanukkah Basics, Origins of Hanukkah, Seven Times Hanukkah, Hanukkah Acrostics, Dreidel, Psalms of Mattathias and Judah, and more.

Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI): Hanukkah
Well organized basic material about the holiday. Blessings, history, traditions, and activities.

Ohr Somayach: Chanukah Site
Laws and customs of Chanukah from an orthodox point of view. Interesting assortment of articles about the holiday by different rabbis. Includes humor and fun material too.

Orthodox Union: Chanukah Site
Unique in the prayers and songs it publishes in different languages. Advanced material about the holiday from an orthodox perspective.

Virtual Jerusalem - Chanukah
"This year VJ is All Fired Up to bring you an even bigger and better Chanukah Supersite loaded with fun and games, activity and information, Torah and even Virtual Latkes!"

WorldWide Jewish Web: Chanukah.com
Songs, history, recipes, free Jewish greeting cards, prayers and top ten gift list make this site great for the holiday of lights.

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