This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Food Top Pastry Chef Rachel Binder’s Latke Secrets
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 Rachel Binder Restaurant Pastry chef formerly of Maialino, Savoy and Union Square Cafe, whose holiday treats are sold at Padoca Bakery, New…
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Culture Chrismukkah, and 5 Other Things to Read, Watch, and Do This Weekend
As you settle in for the long Chrismukkah weekend, it’s a great time to catch up on reading, binge watch your favorite TV shows (or a great new one) and, for the daring, venture outside for some magical holiday fun. Our best picks, below. 1) Celebrate Chrismukkah! This year, Hanukkah starts on Christmas Eve for…
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Culture Everything You Wanted To Know About Menorahs But Were Afraid To Ask
Hanukkah does not begin until December 24, but the historian Steven Fine has already captured the holiday mood in “The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel.” Among other things, Fine’s book, published by Harvard University Press, explains the distinction between the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple and the hanukiah, or nine-branched candelabrum…
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Food A Coffee Club Offers a True Taste of Vienna — and Makes a Great Gift
What is an Orthodox father of eight from Cleveland, who lives in Jerusalem and works for Hewlett-Packard, doing importing coffee grown in Brazil and roasted in Vienna to coffee lovers throughout the United States? The answer is much simpler than the question: He’s cultivating a passion. Ted Marcus fell in love with the coffee he…
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Food 11 Cookbooks We Loved This Year
For the past five years running, the Forward’s annual list of best Jewish cookbooks has included something by Yotam Ottolenghi — from the U.S. release of “Plenty” in 2011 to last year’s “NOPI,” with “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” and others in between. Not this year. While we eagerly await Ottolenghi’s next work, a number of excellent…
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The Schmooze The Forward Ugly Sweater Hanukiah
We at the Forward have a burning passion for truth and a fierce love of Hanukkah. And, needless to say, no one can hold a candle to our reporting. So to celebrate the miracle of the oil, we decided to put two traditional Hanukkah items that go great together, together. And we created — with…
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Food What Happened to My Kosher Secret Santa Chocolate Maccabees?
Santa has disappeared from your chocolate Maccabee. This Hanukkah, when you peel the gilded foil from a Maccabee treat, you will no longer reveal a secret Santa. Last Hanukkah Jennie Rivlin Roberts, then the owner of the on-line Judaica shop, Modern Tribe, decided to sample some of her inventory of chocolate Maccabees with some of…
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News Has Matzoball Gone Too Far With Sexist Ads Drenched in Jewish Stereotypes?
“I’m just a Jew, a lonely Jew on Christmas,” sang Kyle, the Jewish character in “South Park,” and for the last 30 years, thousands of young American Jews have searched for love at Matzoball, the glitzy singles party line that takes place in cities across the U.S. on Christmas Eve. From a single event in…
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