This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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The Schmooze Happy HAIMakkah! Listen To The Girl Band’s Killer New Hanukkah Song
Put on your yarmulke, the Haim sisters are taking over Hanukkah. Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim, known collectively as the rock band Haim, may be about to unseat Adam Sandler in the eternal Best Hanukkah Song competition. The band debuted a brief new Hanukkah song on their Instagram on Tuesday, with the caption, “sandler we’re…
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Fast Forward Ivanka And Jared Pose For The ‘Gram With Kids And Several Unlit Menorahs
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner posed with their children in an Instagram post on the first night of Hanukkah. The White House power couple stood smiling over a table strewn with menorahs, gelt and what appeared to be one golden dreidel. Curiously, only two of the five menorahs shown in the picture were lit. The…
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Community 8 Nights Of Vegetarian Hanukkah Delights
I am no cooking class expert, but the setup of the Manhattan JCC’s Vegetarian Hanukkah Dinner class seemed quite unusual. As I briefly lingered in the doorway, a sea of friendly yet confused faces framed by gray and white hair met my gaze. Four people sat to a table and there was not an ingredient…
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Life The True Story of Hanukkah Is Not The Miracle of Oil. It’s Something Far More Insidious.
Why do we light Hanukkah candles? We tell our children how to light and when to light but we don’t tell them the real reason we light. Most people believe that we light Hanukkah candles because a single pot of oil – which was meant to last one day to light the Temple’s Candelabra –…
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Life How To Teach Your Toddler About Hanukkah — When Their Teacher Is Talking About Christmas
How much would you pay for Hanukkah guilt? No, not gelt, the gold-covered chocolate coins strewn about on this Festival of Lights, but actual guilt. You know, the Jewish kind. I asked myself this as I stood in a packed Judaica store on the Upper West Side, one of the dozens of New Yorkers who…
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Opinion Growing Up Poor, Hanukkah Was A Fraught Time
I was six when I first felt guilty for receiving a gift. I didn’t know what money was, but I was pretty sure we didn’t have it. Although I didn’t grow up feeling inadequate, I somehow knew we had less. Nevertheless, Hanukkah was a festive occasion in my house. My parents made an abundance of…
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Life 8 Ugly Hanukkah Sweaters That Will Light Up The Holiday
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, everyone wears (or knows the joy of wearing) Ugly Sweaters in honor of the holidays. After all, what better way to show off your love of holiday season (and to hide the extra poundage you’re bound to gain) than to proudly proclaim it in vaguely inappropriate epigrams like,…
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The Schmooze Why Is Spotify’s Hanukkah Playlist So Unbearably Awful?
I will be the last person to argue that Hanukkah’s musical heritage is one of particular depth; we sing the same few songs every year, they’re heartwarming if not exciting, and that’s great. Yet even I must wonder: How did Spotify get its Hanukkah playlist so egregiously wrong? Only six of its 46 songs were…
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