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dreidel
Binghamton U. students say they’re the top dreidel spinners [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
December 11, 2012
Jewish students at Binghamton University in upstate New York say they have documentation to prove that they broke the Guinness World Record for dreidel spinning.
Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Dec. 27- Jan. 2: Hot Rod Chanukah, Moroccan New Years Eve
Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
December 26, 2008
MUSIC VIDEO: Kenny Ellis — ‘Swingin’ Dreidel’
Jewish Journal
December 15, 2006
Kenny Ellis sings his hit single from his \’Hanukkah Swings!\’ album on Favored Nations Records.
He makes unique dreidels, and he makes them out of clay
Sarah Price Brown
December 14, 2006
In a gallery carved into a stone wall amid the ancient ruins of Caesarea, Eran Grebler sits at a potter\’s wheel shaping clay dreidels.Grebler\’s dreidels are not your typical spinning tops. They don\’t have four sides, and they\’re not necessarily for Chanukah.
The Greatest Game
Susan Freudenheim
January 12, 2006
We sat at my sister-in-law\’s kitchen table, 11 of us from three generations of my husband\’s family, absorbed by a wicked game of dreidel on the fifth night of Chanukah, howling with abandon and anticipation at each seemingly endless spin. My 10-year-old daughter, the youngest present, was killing us all, amassing huge quantities of chocolate gold.
Spectator – Once Upon a Menorah
Tom Tugend
December 22, 2005
A three-foot dancing dreidel and a visiting Holocaust survivor recall the ageless tales from a fresh perspective, when PBS station KCET airs \”Chanukah Stories\” on Dec. 24 and 25.
Through God’s Eyes
Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer
December 9, 2004
We call it the Festival of Lights, but Chanukah starts in a very dark place. It begins with two stories, each very serious.
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