This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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The Schmooze Hanukkah Rap Battle
The Shmooze is pretty certain that these off-the-cuff Hanukkah raps by Too Short and Jim Jones are not going to become part of the Hanukkah song canon. Somehow, it seems unlikely that these ditties commissioned by TMZ for an “It’s Dreidel Time, Bitch!” rap battle will have as much longevity has “I Have a Little…
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News Dealing With Christmas Envy at Hanukkah
‘It’s comin’ on Christmas / They’re cuttin’ down trees / They’re putting up reindeer / And singing songs of joy and peace.…” I grew up obsessed with Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” album, lustily singing along with every track, mournfully noting how sad it was that she made her baby cry, during Christmas of all times. So…
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News South of the Border for Hanukkah
Mexico in December overflows with Christmas spirit. Virtually every home boasts a nativity scene and pots planted with bright-red poinsettias. And on Christmas Eve, families follow the solemn midnight Mass with a festive party filled with delicious food and a piñata for the kids. Unlike in America, where Hanukkah has become its own commercial and…
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The Schmooze ‘Christmas’ Menorahs Popular in Ireland
A surprising fact about the Irish: they love menorahs, apparently. So says IrishCentral, which reports that “you can count them by the hundred” each December between Dublin and Galway. It’s unlikely the candelabras belong to actual Jews — just 2,000 of the country’s 4.4 million citizens are Jewish, the piece says. The trend has gone…
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The Schmooze Slideshow: Maurice Sendak’s Hanukkah Lamps
Maurice Sendak is best known as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, most famously, “Where the Wild Things Are,” and more recently, “Bumble-Ardy,” published this year. Sendak, who was born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn and lost much of his family in the Holocaust, also illustrated Isaac Bashevis Singer’s children’s story “Zlateh the…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Latke Recipe; Gourmet Gefiltefish?
Yotam Ottolenghi, the London-based Israeli chef and master of vegetarian cuisine isn’t a veggie himself, but his cookbook “Plenty”, “is among the most generous and luxurious nonmeat cookbooks ever produced,” says Mark Bittman. [New York Times] Let the latke recipes start! Here’s one for apple and cheese-stuffed ones. [The Kitchn] With the opening of Kutsher’s…
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The Schmooze ‘Hannukah Pricing’ Vodka Ads Are Dumped
A New York vodka billboard featuring the slogan “Christmas Quality, Hannukah Pricing,” was quickly removed after the Anti-Defamation League criticized it as anti-Semitic, news reports said. One billboard for Wodka vodka was taken down from a prominent spot overlooking the West Side Highway in Manhattan, the New York Times reported. The ad, part of a…
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The Schmooze Mel Gibson To Make Judah Maccabee Movie
Mel Gibson just can’t seem to stop himself from taking on two things: ancient epics and Jews. In a bit of a shocker, Deadline reports that the actor and filmmaker is teaming up with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to make a movie about Judah Maccabee for Warner Bros. Yes, that Judah Maccabee — the Hasmonean military…
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