Please visit these fine retailers for all of your Chanukah needs.
Adath Israel’s Coleman Family Judaica Shop
For the sisterhood ladies, it’s the mitzvah of making a Jewish home that drives their passion for Adath Israel’s Coleman Family Judaica Shop.
What makes Adath Israel’s Judaica shop special is that it is not a gift shop — it’s a Judaica shop. It only sells Judaica, nothing else, and it also serves the entire community. With over 500 items for sale at any given time, there is something for everyone. Most of the items are from Israel or made in Israel.
The hope is that the Judaica shop will help enhance mitzvot (hiddur mitzvot) by carrying beautiful ritual items. Making use of ritual objects, no matter how simple or grand, whether new or heirloom, also signals to your family and friends that Judaism and its rituals are an important part of your home life. The Judaica Shop is sure to have beautiful items for your own use and to give to others so that they too, can carry on our traditions. The traditions continue with today’s artists reshaping ceremonial objects using new and innovative materials. Most contemporary Judaica artists may be found in our shop or by special order.
Drawing in dreidel collectors from all over the city, the shop has the largest selection around. All of the profits go directly to Adath Israel’s sisterhood, which helps support the religious school, youth department, and many other programs at Adath Israel.
Elizabeth Grace Home
Elizabeth Grace Home in Montgomery offers a collection of the finest home decor and accessories from around the world.
Formerly Gattles, it offers bed and bath linens as well as accessories, home accents, sleepwear, handkerchiefs, infant bedding, and gifts.
The store still offers the same quality, ambience and unique gifts that have been the traditions since 1904, when German immigrant Henrietta Gattle began selling imported lace curtains door-to-door in Cincinnati.
Elizabeth Grace Home’s Bridal Registry offers upcoming brides personalized assistance in creating their own unique collection of fine linens and home accessories. It offers an extensive array of styles to accommodate the modern bride, while maintaining quality and tradition.
The store also offers a Baby Registry, where expectant mothers can register for their baby shower. Elizabeth Grace Home offers a wide range of gifts to help welcome the baby, from soft blankets to gentle shampoos and lotions.
Elizabeth Grace Home offers a full range of gift wrapping for wedding, baby, hostess and any other gifts.
Jacob James
Jacob James is a boutique for high-end jewelry, handbags, and accessories on Hyde Park Square. They specialize in new designer jewelry, and also “pre-loved” luxury items including jewelry and watches, designer handbags, accessories such as wallets, sunglasses, scarves and hats — the accessories that “make” an outfit, according to owner Michelle Randle, — as well as art.
Jacob James offers the newest in today’s fine and fashion trends while not forgetting about yesterday’s luxury. Whether you choose to breathe new life into a pre-owned luxury item or a piece that begins its journey with you, we will help you make it your own. Jacob James buys, sells and consigns.
Randle, a Cincinnati native, has been in the fashion and jewelry industry for the past 20+ years; she had gotten into the designer jewelry business as a teenager working for Nina Paul. She looks forward to helping you find the perfect piece.
“It was my dream to open a store like this,” said Randle. “This is a great business model. The store has a boutique feel and offers something to everyone.
Boris Litwin Jewelers
Boris Litwin Jewelers is a fourth generation, family-owned Cincinnati jewelry store in Cincinnati, Ohio. Litwin Jewelers prides itself on its knowledge and passion about the jewelry industry and the various services it provides to its customers. Such services include the making of custom jewelry and engagement rings and jewelry repair and appraisal. Litwins’s current president is BJ Foreman, and Foreman runs a small business on purpose and wants to keep it that way.
What sets Litwin Jewelers apart from other jewelry businesses is its emphasis on stunning custom pieces and its long history as a family business. Litwins believes that their custom jewelry offers its customers the chance to truly express themselves, and the staff always look forward to the opportunity to sit with their customers in its Cincinnati shop and see the customer’s face when their special design is finished and presented to them. It’s moment a business like Litwins really cherishes.
Spanning four generations, Litwins had its humble beginnings in the West End of Cincinnati in 1913 with a young Boris Litwin, BJ Foeman’s grandfather, who, at the tender age of thirteen, began designing and crafting jewelry with his father, Akim. Their first workshop was Boris’ own bedroom. In its early days, the business moved to 6th Street downtown for its first retail business with a manufacturing center upstairs. Boris Litwin Jewelers, as we know it today, opened on Garfield Place in 1972 after the Litwin Company was sold. Today, it is located in the lovely shopping district of Madeira, Ohio.
Litwins is a customer-focused business with a family-run staff with multi-generations of employees. As always, the business emphasizes the same things it continues to pride itself on, like quality, style and making people proud and happy to wear jewelry. Litwins hopes to offer each and every customer who walks through its doors a truly memorable experience. Whether it’s an engagement ring or a custom jewelry piece, Litwins has its customers’ needs covered.
Northern Hills Synagogue Sisterhood Gift Shop
NHS Sisterhood is a very active group of dedicated women of many talents, including running a well-stocked gift shop.
The gift shop has a gift registry including bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings, graduations, and new babies.
The shop has a broad range of new merchandise in all price ranges. Merchandise includes: Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah items, Chanukah menorahs, dreidels and gifts, Passover seder plates, haggadahs and plague puppets and masks for the kids, jewelry, beautiful tallit, kiddish cups, mezuzahs and kosher parchments, havdallah sets, challah boards and covers, and many more Judaic and non Judaic items.
Featured is the Sisterhood’s kosher cookbook, “Enjoy More!” containing more than 400 recipes including vegetarian, meat, and dairy entrees, crockpot, holiday, wonderful soups, sides, appetizers, desserts and much, much more. Every recipe has nutritional information and calorie counts.
Sisterhood Gift Shop at Wise Temple
The Sisterhood Gift Shop at Wise Temple is a cornucopia of wonders. No matter what you’re looking for, special gifts or just because, you’ll find it all here.
With Chanukah around the corner, don’t wait until last minute holiday needs become emergencies. The gift shop carries a broad range of Chanukah games and toys for the kids and a full complement of candles in a rainbow of colors to bring a bright new splash of color to your celebrations.
The gift shop also offers a selection of creative and artistic menorahs of various styles and materials, from traditional to contemporary designs in metals, ceramic, glass and faux wood. There are fun and light-hearted menorahs to appeal to children and to kids at heart (like the emoji and hippie van menorahs), simple, traditionally styled menorahs as well as striking, sculptural menorahs that are one-of-a-kind works of art. LED menorahs that are safe for dorm rooms and nursing homes will bring the holidays to college students and older family members. There are numerous unique dreidels to tempt collectors and children too.
The gift shop also stocks Judaica for all lifecycle events and Jewish holidays. Need a gift for a new baby, consecration, B’nai Mitzvah, confirmation or wedding? Forgo the generic gifts and purchase uniquely Jewish mementoes like tallits, kippahs, mezuzahs and candle sticks that will provide meaning and memories for years to come.
