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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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The Schmooze Hanukkah Underwear Is Miraculously Here
At last! A pair of seasonal Jewish underwear that will make you seem like the kind of classy person who listens to podcasts. Famed indie underwear brand MeUndies has debuted a limited edition Hanukkah print, “Joy Vey” underwear studded with gelt, menorahs and dreidels. The underwear is made out of (seriously if you have ever…
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Community How To Clean Wax Off Of Your Hanukkah Menorah
Flummoxed by how to clean off the wax stuck to your Hanukkiah? We’re here to help: The best way to clean off your Hanukkah menorah is to heat the wax with a hair dryer and clean it off with a kitchen towel. Use cotton swabs if you need to get into the candle bits. Or…
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Fast Forward Trump Snubbed Congressional Democrats At White House Hanukkah Party
President Trump is hosting his first White House Hanukkah reception on Thursday, keeping up with a tradition dating back to the George W. Bush presidency and kept by Barack Obama. There will be some major differences, however. First, the party, which ballooned in recent years into a massive event requiring two separate rounds of menorah…
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Recipes Gourmet Gift Guide — Top 10 Cookbooks Of 2017
Compiling a list of the best Jewish cookbooks of any given year can be a difficult task. While some books wear their Judaism right on their spines — by having the word “Jewish” in the title, for example, or by being specifically about Jewish food — others are less obvious. Having a Jewish author doesn’t…
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The Schmooze The Santa Claus Dreidel: Peaceful Compromise Or Assimilation Nightmare?
I had a little dreidel, I made it out of the fusing of two diametrically opposed religious traditions! It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. But with the intermarriage debate continuing to spin Jews of every denomination into a tizzy, can spinning a wooden top hurt? Could a great miracle happen here, in America, where…
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Culture The 12 Books You Absolutely Need This Hanukkah
2017 has been a stressful year. The health care system has been jeopardized; nuclear war has been threatened; hurricanes and wildfires devastated California, the northern Midwest, Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico; Harvey Weinstein, Leon Wieseltier, Bill O’Reilly, Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey, among many other powerful men, were brought down by horrifying allegations of sexual…
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Fast Forward Hanukkah Brings Rare Bipartisan Moment To Capitol Hill
Congressional Hanukkah receptions are a long-standing tradition. In recent years, they were organized by Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. This year, in stark contrast to everything else coming out of Capitol Hill, Wasserman Schultz is joining forces with a Republican, Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York, to co-host the annual reception, scheduled for December…
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