This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Life Why Not All Israeli Feminists Are Interested in Hanukkah Candles
A Hanukkah near-miracle reminds us of feminist divisions The quarter-century-old feminist prayer group Women of the Wall was on the receiving end of its very own Hanukkah near-miracle this week, when Israel’s attorney general’s office ordered the Kotel rabbi to include women in the state’s official Hanukkah ceremony. Women of the Wall launched a campaign…
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Food 8 Whiskies For 8 Nights
Enough with the oil. Cut the grease of the festival of “lets-celebrate-religious zealotry-by-inducing-heart-disease.” Its time to talk about eight nights of truly miraculous golden liquids — ones that are indeed flammable, but ones that would only confirm your insanity were you to put a match to them. Give the kids their toys and retire to…
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The Schmooze Get High-nukkah Started With This Pot Latke Song
Should we just call it High-nukkah? MC Flow has broken into this year’s witty Hanukkah songs field with her new video “Pot in the Latkes.” She’s a white woman who happens to rap, and given that her song is a paean to the ability of bubbe’s potato pancakes to get the party started, she’s clearly…
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Recipes The Best Jewish Cookbooks of 2015
Cookbooks make fantastic Hanukkah presents for the die-hard foodies, armchair chefs and aspiring gourmets in your life. To help you navigate the unusually crowded field of Jewish cookbooks that came out in 2015, we offer this roundup of our favorites. (For lack of a better organizational system, the list goes in chronological order of when…
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The Schmooze Hanukkah, As Explained by Pop Culture GIFS
Want to know the story of Hanukkah? Only got, like maybe half a minute? You’re in luck. We’ve created an animated GIF that explains the whole thing, with a little help from Jon Stewart, “New Girl” and many other (Jewish) pop icons. View post on imgur.com Happy Hanukkah!
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The Schmooze Six13 Parody ‘Whip/Nae Nae’ and ‘Hotline Bling’ for Hanukkah
Has Hanukkah started early? Yesterday we wrote about and today we have the pleasure of bringing you yet another Hanukkah-themed cover of a song – well, actually, two. A capella groups of the world, the Forward now challenges you to bring us covers in this style for the next six days, so we can have…
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Food Brisket’s Mini Modern Side
As the author of “The Brisket Book: A Love Story With Recipes,” I was anointed “The Brisket Queen” on Twitter by Julia Moskin of The New York Times. A passionate brisket cook, eater and chronicler, and a keen observer of the brisket zeitgeist, I need no crystal ball to predict brisket’s future: Brisket is going…
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Recipes Brisket Tacos
Slows Bar B Q’s chef and pitmaster, Brian Perrone, recommends barbecued brisket over braised for this recipe, but says that “braised will work, too. I just wouldn’t go with a brisket braised in red wine.” Beer-braised brisket worked well when the Forward tested these tacos. We also decided to make a miniature version, perfect for…
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