A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without fried donuts.

When it comes to nationality of people, I generally use the term ... maybe by a bowl of yogurt and sabzi-khoran, the ...

To get through the many hours, people gather together and tell stories, seek guidance in the poems of the celebrated Persian poet ... serve the dip with a traditional Iranian flatbread like ...

Erev Yalda is a new ritual that finds beautiful meaning in combining Hanukkah with the ancient Persian tradition of Yalda.