Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Hanukkah
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Food 5 Easy Recipes To Satisfy Your Christmas Craving for Chinese Food
(JTA) — The first night of Hanukkah falls on Dec. 24 this year, but don’t fret: You don’t have to choose between the family Hanukkah party and the time-honored tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Instead, why not take advantage of this calendrical coincidence and embrace both customs? We’ve compiled some delicious, Chinese-inspired dishes…
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Opinion How I Fell in Love With Tacky Hanukkah Sweaters
(JTA) — Ever since I moved to the U.S. from Israel, every late November felt like the beginning of a month-long assault. Every store, business and doctor’s office blared Christmas songs, streets were decorated with ostentatious light shows and seemingly everything became green and red — which, as an art school grad, I found personally…
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The Schmooze 8 TV Shows that Get Hanukkah Just Right
Tis the season of TV Christmas specials
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Opinion Why We Need Hanukkah’s Message of Righteous Rebellion in Age of Trump
We Jews, as an outnumbered and persecuted people, have literally hallowed the principle of communal unity. We espouse it not only as a practical value, but also as a religious injunction. The agents of destruction of the Second Temple were the Roman legions. Yet the Talmud tells us that the truer, underlying cause was Jewish…
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Food Chef Einat Admony’s Latke Secrets
We pried potato pancake preferences from a few of our favorite chefs around the country — and compiled them into a tell-all to help you make the best latkes of your life. Chef Einat Admony Restaurant Balaboosta, Bar Bolonat, Taim, New York Secret ingredient? Sunchokes or raw beets. Type of oil used for frying? Canola…
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Food The Gift of Artisanal Chai
When Amy Rothstein, 27, was in grad school at NYU, she spent a lot of time in coffee shops, where she came to the realization that there was a gap in the market — one that she might be able to fill. Cafés either weren’t serving chai lattes or they were using what she calls…
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Community In Moldova, a Poor Child’s Face Reflects Infinite Jewish Possibilities
Perched high atop a hill, the old Jewish cemetery looked well maintained, so I smiled. In Eastern and Central Europe, I’ve found that to be rare. We had just entered Rybnitsa – crossing the de facto border between the former Soviet republic of Moldova and separatist, quasi-independent Transnistria – when the translator pointed it out….
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Recipes Israel’s Secret Hanukkah Doughnut Recipe
In her new cookbook, “Traditional Jewish Baking: Retro Recipes Your Grandma Would Make…If She Had a Mixer,” popular Israel-based cookbook author and TV personality Carine Goren offers what she calls “the best versions of timeless and traditional Jewish baked goods.” The enticing and accessible volume contains over 100 dessert recipes, from Ashkenazi classics such as…
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