Chanukkah Resources

Text-based Resources

• The National Library of Israel offers a collection of teaching resources on Chanukkah, including a video about the Menorah, Chanukkah advertising in Israel, and celebrating in times of crisis.
• Pardes offers a new Chanukkah reader with 8 themes.
• Hadar's faculty in Israel produced a new holiday companion, A Little Bit of Light.
• Sefaria has a growing collection of Chanukkah resources, including textual sources on many related topics, stories and songs for elementary grades, fun lessons with research games for middle school (here and here), and Chassidic insights.
• Chanukkah resources from the Lookstein Center includes texts, lesson plans, videos and activities.
• Text based lessons from NCSY
• 8 Hanukkah Traditions From Around the World (My Jewish Learning)

Videos and Songs

• Animate Chanukah created 8 educational videos for Chanukah. Each video presents an idea connected to Chanukah and ends with an open question which can be discussed together.
• Chanukah Shaboom from Bimbam
• Unpacked for Educators presents "Hanukkah, Hellenization, and Hasmoneans."
• Ladino and English versions of Nez by Carla Berg, courtesy of Jewish&
• Two beautiful and very different renditions of the Breslov melody to Ma'oz Tzur, by Evyatar Banai and sisters Nehora and Hadas Yisraeli.
• It’s not Chanukkah without the Maccabeats. Here’s one of their lesser-known Chanukkah songs, “Candles on the Sill.”
• Chanukkah songs from communities around the world can be found on the website of Israel’s national library (formerly piyyut.org).

Articles and Other Resources

• View the extensive collections of menorahs / chanukkiyot at New York's Jewish Museum and Jerusalem's Israel Museum
• Explore what Chanukkah can teach us about social justice in the modern world with these interactive text studies from AJWS
• Gyration Nation: The Weird Ancient History of the Dreidel
• Jgateways offers resources for providing students with extra support to enjoy the holiday.
• Selected Hannukah materials from The iCenter
• New York's Jewish Education Project offers a wide variety of curated Chanukkah resources.
• Family Reflection Guide for the Hanukkah Candles (ANU)