This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Food Are Gingerbread Houses for Jews Too?
Is the world ready for Hanukkah gingerbread houses?
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Life Is a Pink Sparkly Barbie Wrong for Hanukkah?
Bratz dolls. Courtesy: MGA Entertainment (Haaretz) — We modern parents do our best to empower our little girls. We assure our daughters that they are strong, smart, capable and can be anything they want to be – doctors, lawyers, athletes, scientists or world leaders. At the same time, we try to teach our boys to…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Won’t Get Hanukkah Candle-Lighting at Kotel
A request by Women of the Wall to hold a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony in the women’s section of the holy site was denied. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbinic authority of the Western Wall and holy places, denied its request, Women of the Wall said in a statement Sunday. According to the group, Rabinowitz said the…
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Food Hanukkah Gelt’s Dark (Chocolate) Backstory
Buying fair trade chocolate — in the form of gelt, or even sufganiyot — makes particular sense on Hanukkah, when we celebrate freedom from tyranny. Photo courtesy of Ilana Schatz. When I first learned about the issue of trafficked child labor in cocoa fields, I immediately thought of the gelt that I’ve eaten every Hanukkah…
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Food Sweet Chocolate-Filled Sufganiyot
Photograph courtesy of Ilana Schatz On Hanukkah, chocolate need not be confined to gelt. After tasting one of these warm, chocolate-filled sufganiyot, you won’t want to return to the old jelly-filled standard. Use fair trade chocolate to ensure the freedom of cocoa workers on the holiday that celebrates the Maccabees’ fight against oppression. ¾ cup…
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Fast Forward Mensch on Bench Sells Fast as Hanukkah Nears
(Reuters) — The toymaker who funded his sold-out Mensch on a Bench toy through a Kickstarter campaign last year is ramping up production of the plaything in time for Hanukkah next week. A Jewish version of the wildly popular Christmas Elf on the Shelf toy, the doll and book set retells the Hanukkah story and…
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Life What Would Tevye Say (About Santa Claus)?
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman When a grown woman and her seventy-something mother engage in yearly debates about the existence of Santa, I think we can agree: there’s a problem. Of course, my mother believes the problem is mine, while I tag her as the source of the annual angst. But who’s telling this story? My…
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Opinion ‘A Split in the Jewish Soul’: Hanukkah Reconsidered
Hanukkah: A heartwarming story about Jew vs. Jew. Come again? Us against us? I thought it was Jew against Greek: Maccabee vs. Antiochus. Most of us grew up with the same idealized story: that Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the underdog-Maccabees in preserving our religion despite the callous Syrian-Greek attempt to quash all Jewish rituals….
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