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Recipes Pro Tips For Creating A Miraculous Hanukkah Cocktail
When challenged with the task, Chaim Dauermann, bar manager of The Up & Up in Greenwich Village, devised a drink that sounds harder to make than it is. A take on a classic “milk punch,” the milk undergoes a seemingly miraculous transformation from the white stuff you pour over cereal to a perfectly clear concoction…
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Community How I Make The Most Of Christmas Break — As An Ultra-Orthodox Public School Student
The “Twelve days of Christmas” can be an excruciatingly long period of time to endure — especially if you are a teenager with all of that time off from school, but do not actually celebrate Christmas. This is my pending predicament for the upcoming holiday season and one I have experienced for the past three…
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Community Gluten-Free Doughnuts For Hanukkah
Get out the dreidels and polish the menorah — Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is just around the corner! Jews today recount the inspiring story of Chanukah over candles, songs, prayers, and fun for eight days and nights every year. The centerpiece of the Chanukah table is fried food, commemorating the miracle oil that kept…
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The Schmooze Sheryl Sandberg Is Helping Grieving Families Handle The Holidays
The Jewish festival of lights falls during the winter for a reason — in dark times we have to depend on communal sources of light to warm us. Sheryl Sandberg says your presence really is the best present you can give mourners during the holidays. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has made a second career of…
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The Schmooze How To Decorate For 8 Nights Of Melania-kkah
Christmas in Tarturus: Melania Trump has been ridiculed this week for decorating the White House to resemble the mythological Greek underworld’s hell. With a glistening, Styx-like passageway lined with foreboding grey-ish brambles that look like if they pricked you, you would sleep for one thousand years, Trump’s holiday White House is a shadowy realm of…
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Culture The Word ‘Hanukkah’ Means A Lot More Than You Think It Does
What does the word “Hanukkah” mean? For children, it often means the holiday of presents. For Tel Aviv doughnut obsessives, it means congregating on all eight days at bakeries with the most elaborate sufganiyot. For many around the world, it’s “the Festival of Lights,” when seeing menorahs in the windows of neighbors’ homes illuminates the…
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Life This $167K Yarmulke Is The Status Symbol You Never Knew You Needed
If you thought $36,000 was a crazy amount to spend on a kippah, we’re about to blow your minds: For the bargain deal of $167,000, you can be the proud owner of a diamond and swarovski crystal encrusted yarmulke. Yarmulkes have never really been a “luxury” item. It’s more that shiny polyester cap that’s given…
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Community It’s Official: Latkes Are The Best Hanukkah Treat — And Here Are 10 Ways To Make Them Even More Awesome.
You voted, and the results are in: latkes rule, and sufganiyot don’t quite make you drool. ??? What’s The Best Hanukkah Treat: Latkes or Sufganiyot? ??? — Laura E. Adkins (@Laura_E_Adkins) November 17, 2017 While you can always buy them, making your own is much more fun. But even if you opt to buy the…
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