Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Recipes The Ultimate Hanukkah Recipe Guide For 8 Delicious Nights
Latkes and sufganiyot are the unrefuted stars of the Hanukkah culinary landscape, but they are by no means the only festive foods to make and eat during the holiday. For a night or two we might convince ourselves that we could live on all that golden-fried goodness, but at some point the need for protein,…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Makes It To Trump’s Twitter Cover Photo
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik is well known in Jewish circles. But the scion of the great Soloveichik Orthodox rabbinical lineage who is currently the rabbi of New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel, America’s oldest synagogue, will now be exposed to a much larger audience. In fact, more than 44 million people around the world will get a…
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Life An Israeli Pop Up Shop Just In Time For Hanukkah
What happens when a young, entrepreneurial New York-based fashion maven becomes enamored with Israeli fashion? You get an Israeli pop-up, just in time for the holidays. Beged — which literally means “clothes” in hebrew — will be open to the public for the entirety of Hanukkah, from Wednesday, December 13 to Wednesday, December 20. Located…
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Recipes Fried Potato Sliders, A Spicy Mumbai Snack, Make Festive Latke Substitute
I had only two days left in Mumbai before flying back home to the U.S. (with a few days layover in Tel Aviv, where I was born and raised). I had pretty much checked off all the boxes on my Jewish-Indian heritage discovery trip to India. I’d visited almost every single active synagogue in this…
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The Schmooze You Can Now Spin A Dreidel At A Hannukah Pop Up Bar In Washington, D.C.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — but not a lot like Hanukkah. As window displays become pyrotechnic and people start frequenting airport arrivals areas in the hopes of transforming into one of the characters in “Love, Actually,” there are endless ways to get in the spirit of Christ’s birth. But short of…
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Community Hanukkah Poll: Do You Give Your Children Eight Small Presents Or One Big Gift?
The eight day holiday of Hanukkah begins on the 25th of Kieslev — which means that in 2017, the holiday begins on the night of December 12. On the holiday, do you give your children and relatives eight small presents, one for each night, or one large one — or none at all? Parents and…
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Life I’m Jewish – Wish Me a Merry Christmas Anyway, Dammit
Every year, conservatives declare there’s a war on Christmas if a manger is barred from a federal building or if there is no Christmas tree in their kid’s school. The outrage is even often focused on the Starbuck’s audacity to celebrate the holiday by printing offensive cups – this time depicting a lesbian couple. The…
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The Schmooze The Results Are In: Manischewitz Tried To Settle ‘Hanukkah’ Spelling Debate With A National Poll
It was a tough year for the polling industry. Since the presidential election Nate Silver has been persona non grata north of the Mason-Dixon line and no one born after 1995 knows what a landline is. Nevertheless, the iconic Manischewitz Company, sponsor of so many of our first drinking experiences, put a nation’s raging debate…
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