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Fast Forward Israeli President Brings the Cheer to White House Hanukkah Party
(JTA) — Reuven Rivlin toddles up the White House driveway. He is grinning as he shouts in Hebrew to a phalanx of local Israeli reporters shivering in the December chill: “If you must live in a Diaspora, live in this one!” Washington’s Hanukkah week has found an unlikely Santa Claus in Israel’s president: His workshop, where…
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The Schmooze ‘Serial’ is Back – and It’s a Hanukkah Miracle
Best. Hanukkah. Present. Ever. The long wait is over: “Serial” has returned, just in time for the 5th night of Hanukkah. And it had me dancing and spinning around like a dreidel. RELATED: Sarah Koenig Makes this Year’s Forward 50 Welcome back, long break room conversations, arguments with co-workers and grating week-long waits for the…
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Fast Forward Hanukkah Candle Lighting Returns to Polish Presidential Palace
Representatives of the Polish Jewish community lit Hanukkah candles at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw following a one-year hiatus. The ceremony, which was launched in 2006, was held Wednesday evening. Until 2014, the candle lighting had been held every year since its inauguration. “It is good that Hanukkah candles were lit again in the Presidential…
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The Schmooze Texas Synagogue Creates 16-Foot Lego Menorah
“It was like, 45,000 Legos,” said Mike Lavi, estimating the number of pieces making up the 16-foot, 3-inches tall Lego menorah currently on display at Fort Worth’s Congregation Ahavath Sholom. Lavi, who designed the menorah, provided that estimate in a video produced by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram showing highlights of the menorah’s assembly. After Ahavath…
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Life Eight Lights to Keep Jewish Feminists Warm This Hanukkah
It’s dark outside. I know, I’m stating the obvious. But this year, the darkness feels like it is swallowing me. It is not simply that it is often still pitch black when I wake up again the next morning, and already dark when I leave the Beit Midrash every night. This darkness is thick, obscuring…
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Fast Forward President Obama Hosts Jewish Leaders at White House Hanukkah Party
President Barack Obama hosted President Reuven Rivlin and a dozens of Jewish leaders Wednesday at two White House parties for Hanukkah. Obama recalled the Alan Gross was freed just in time for last year’s holiday, and noted that Gross was able to attend this year’s party. “We are happy to have him home here today…
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Recipes A Women’s Hanukkah Party
No cookies cooled on racks. No colorful frosting dripped from the counter. Nor were any dorky decorations being pasted. With grandkids away at school and an early Hanukkah date, gone were the aromas that once infused everything before winter’s highlight, Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. How sad! Where did the years go? Related Butternut Squash…
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Recipes Mushroom Barley Soup (With Beef Broth)
A hearty dish for the cold weather, this recipe combines dried porcinis with regular mushrooms for a rich flavor. Related A Women’s Hanukkah Party Butternut Squash Soup Whole-Year Vegetable Soup Meat Serves 10–12 ½ cup dried porcini mushrooms or similar 2 tablespoons parve margarine + 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup chopped white onions 6…
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