Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Fast Forward This year’s USPS Hanukkah stamp is a simple menorah with a warm backstory
The stamp was designed by an artist whose mother escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport
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Culture Baby hippos look like potatoes — which is why this one is named Latke
The pygmy hippo calf was born during Hanukkah
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News That 98-year-old man on drums at the White House Hanukkah party? A Holocaust survivor fulfilling a dream
President Joe Biden has a history of elevating Holocaust survivors
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Fast Forward Menorahs across the US are vandalized as Jewish communities celebrate Hanukkah amid a spike in antisemitism
A Chabad spokesman said there are more public menorahs this year than ever before, and attributed the increase to the Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward IDF says it is disciplining soldiers who broadcast Jewish prayers from West Bank mosque
The chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel also weighed in against the incident
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Forverts in English What to make of the Polish parliament Hanukkah incident
Given the brazenness of the far-right politician's attack, Jews may soon become more convenient political targets in Poland
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News From Kibbutz Be’eri to the White House, menorahs retrieved from Oct. 7 wreckage light up for Hanukkah
Joe Biden called a menorah from Kibbutz Kfar Aza “a symbol of the Jewish people that not only survive but heal, rebuild and continue to shine their light on the world"
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Opinion Who are the courageous and who are the weak? Viewing the war through the lens of a Hanukkah prayer
Israeli soldiers are not the Hasmoneans, and Hamas militants are not the Greeks
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Yiddish ווי האָבן ייִדן געהיט די ייִדיש־קולטור אױף יענער זײַט „אײַזערנעם פֿאָרהאַנג“?How did Jews maintain their Yiddish culture behind the Iron Curtain?
ייִדישע ליטעראַטן, װאָס האָבן געטרײַ געדינט די קאָמוניסטישע רעזשימען, האָבן גענוצט זײערע פּריװילעגיעס כּדי אָפּצוהיטן ייִדיש.
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Fast Forward All the Jewish NHL players to watch in the 2024-2025 season
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Opinion A two-state solution may seem like a distant dream. Here’s why it shouldn’t be
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Opinion I’m a Holocaust survivor. Here’s why I celebrated my 80th birthday protesting at an Israeli prison
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