This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Hanukkah
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	  Film & TV Hallmark’s ‘Leah’s Perfect Gift’ gets interfaith relationships right — and a whole lot else wrongThe new Hallmark film about a Jewish woman celebrating Christmas is more sensitive than you might imagine 
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	  Fast Forward New children’s books for Hanukkah channel 2024’s unusual Christmas convergenceAlso out this year: a picture book about a unique menorah used at the White House. 
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	  Fast Forward A very Jewish, very New York gift guide for Hanukkah 2024From a bagel-and-lox hair clip to a Statue of Liberty menorah, these 12 items are sure to bring NYC-style holiday happiness to everyone on your list. 
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	  Music Promising ‘no stupid Hanukkah songs,’ The Leevees strive for a ‘two-sauce solution’A rock 'n' roll supergroup of sorts wants to reinvent Jewish holiday music 
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	  Fast Forward This year’s USPS Hanukkah stamp is a simple menorah with a warm backstoryThe stamp was designed by an artist whose mother escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport 
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	  Culture Baby hippos look like potatoes — which is why this one is named LatkeThe pygmy hippo calf was born during Hanukkah 
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	  News That 98-year-old man on drums at the White House Hanukkah party? A Holocaust survivor fulfilling a dreamPresident Joe Biden has a history of elevating Holocaust survivors 
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	  Fast Forward Menorahs across the US are vandalized as Jewish communities celebrate Hanukkah amid a spike in antisemitismA Chabad spokesman said there are more public menorahs this year than ever before, and attributed the increase to the Israel-Hamas war 
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	  News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
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	  Opinion Jews are worried about Zohran Mamdani. Here’s why they shouldn’t be
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	  Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
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	  Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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	  Yiddish אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִוואָ קומט פֿאָר אין איר געבוירן־שטאָט — ווילנעA conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilniusאיין פֿאָרשער האָט גערעדט וועגן דעם וואָס נישט בלויז די פֿרומע און אָרעמע ייִדן האָבן גערעדט ייִדיש, נאָר די רײַכע און געבילדעטע אויך. 
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