There is something fascinating about things that spin. That’s true for children and adults. A spinning top will capture a toddler’s attention. A more recent invention for children and adults is the ...

Growing up in Ecuador, Pedro Maldonado watched his father, a master jeweler, create religious artifacts for churches. “A lot of his pieces wound up in the Vatican,” Maldonado said. Maldonado ...

A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters inscribed on a dreidel are a Nun, Gimel, Hay or Chai, and Shin. The letters form an ...

It's dreidel-making time at the Ottawa Torah Centre Chabad, and this year they're incorporating some new technology to keep young people interested in the ancient tradition. Dreidels are the ...

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. Outside, tourists explore the old amphitheater, temple and ...

Is Hanukkah a gambler's holiday? According to some, it has the potential to be. Among the festivities associated with the holiday is the children's game of dreidel, a penny-betting game involving a ...

The Hanukkah game's meaning spans Jewish history, but its fundamentals are basically the same -- players ante up and give it a whirl. Whether you collect or pay up depends on which Hebrew letter it ...

The term "dreidel" comes from the Yiddish word dreydl, which means "to turn." According to My Jewish Learning, "Dreidels have four Hebrew letters on them," usually nun, gimmel, hey and shin. These ...

Every winter, parents around the world are forced to tell a well-meaning lie to their children: Christian parents say that Santa Claus is real, and Jewish parents say that dreidel is a fun game to ...