Since I've been teaching Hebrew school this year, I've been preparing for Hanukkah since November. That's when I learned the apparently indispensable "I Am a Latke" song (my students were shocked I never learned it), as well as helped them learn some of my more traditional favorites like Maoz Tsur and the blessings over the candles. The first night of Hanukkah is fortuitously timed for next Sunday night, so my students will showcase their songs at the Hanukkah extravaganza at Hebrew school that day and get to show off their prayer skills for their families that night. Then, one night during the week, we'll go and sing at a nearby senior center. We already sent Hanukkah cards to Jewish soldiers overseas too. So, it is looking to be a very special Hanukkah indeed, but here are a few books and other items that could make my Hanukkah even brighter.
- Paper Brigade, Vol. 6--This is the latest volume; I've enjoyed the earlier volumes a ton; they have a collection of Jewish and Israeli stories, poems, and essays from the United States, Israel, and around the world.
- Mr. Perfect on Paper by Jean Meltzer--I loved The Matzah Ball last year; looking forward to her second Jewish romance novel (and I know there's a third one coming!).
- A spiral notebook like this one
- Rosemary, for cooking
- Online subscriptions to newspapers and magazines like The Baltimore Sun, Vox, Vice, Inc., LA Review of Books--these are the ones where I most commonly run out of free articles, and I can't subscribe to everything (I already subscribe to WaPo, NYT, and Slate).
- Kindle books (so they don't take up too much space) like Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders, or Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore
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