This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Fast Forward WATCH: When ‘Hanukkah Harry’ Saved Christmas
Christians have Santa Claus, but Jews got “Hanukka Harry”
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Food L.A. Chef Micah Wexler’s Latke Secrets Revealed!
We pried potato pancake preferences from a few of our favorite chefs around the country — and compiled them into a tell-all to help you make the best latkes of your life. Chef Micah Wexler Restaurant Wexler’s Deli, Los Angeles. Secret ingredient? Shred the potatoes and the onions, then blanche them in boiling water for…
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Fast Forward Theodore Roosevelt and His 2 Menorahs
(JTA) — President Theodore Roosevelt’s summer home was decorated with the likes of African elephant tusks, a hippo-foot inkwell and other hunting souvenirs. That’s not terribly surprising, considering the 26th president of the United States published three books on hunting. But the average armchair historian might be surprised to learn that Roosevelt, of non-Jewish Dutch ancestry,…
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Food The Search for Perfect Sufganiyot in Chicago
It’s about halfway through Hanukkah, and your initial excitement about latkes has worn off. But if your enthusiasm for arteriosclerosis has yet to be sated, there’s still a second stage to savor: the pleasures of sufganiyot. Unlike latkes, which are always better homemade, one of the greatest of these pleasures is that you can buy…
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Community The Real Victims of The War on Christmas
A Jewish family from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania has suffered a torrent of harassment after false reports from Breitbart and Fox News claiming they deviously arranged the downfall of their child’s elementary school Christmas play. As responsible reporting has shown, they simply asked that their child be excused from participation in the play, and it was…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘Triggers’ Jew Haters With ‘Happy Hanukkah’ Wishes
Some of Donald Trump’s more anti-Semitic supporters were most unhappy over the weekend that marked both Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah, when the president-elect sent out a Hanukkah greeting to American Jews. Here a few of their Twitter missives. @realDonaldTrump “if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness,…
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Israel News Israeli President Celebrates Hanukkah at David Friedman’s Favorite Settlement
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin marked the third night of Hanukkah by lighting a menorah in Beit El, the West Bank settlement that is supported by Donald Trump’s Israel envoy pick David Friedman. Friedman, Trump’s lawyer, is the president of American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which raises about $2 million a year from U.S. donors…
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Fast Forward 6-Foot-Tall Menorah Stolen From San Francisco Park
(JTA) — A six-foot tall, 100 pound menorah was stolen from a park in San Francisco. The menorah, which is owned by the local Chabad, had been installed in San Francisco’s Washington Square Park two weeks ago, the San Francisco Gate reported. It was reported stolen on Sunday, and had been lit on Saturday night….
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