Want your interfaith kids to love Chanukah?

CHICAGO (JTA) — During a season where signs of Christmas seem to be on every corner, many Jewish parents in interfaith families struggle with how to meaningfully incorporate — and get their children excited by — the Jewish side of their tradition.

But parents who really want to effectively help their kids fall in love with Chanukah will have to make a year-round commitment.

When Jews marry people from other religions with distinct cultural traditions, they often find it comfortable and even desirable to raise their children either in dual cultural-religious traditions or in a home defined as c...