Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
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Recipes The 8th Night: Celebrate With a Cupcake Menorah
I love the notion of hiddur mitzvah, this idea that beautifying a ritual object enhances and heightens the mitzvah related to that object. Hiddur Mitzvah can apply to a mezuzah, to a pair of tefillin, to a tzedakah box, to an etrog and, of course, a menorah, and it’s this principle that has brought us…
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Culture Gimme Some New Time Religion
The Last Testament: A Memoir by God (with David Javerbaum) By David Javerbaum 381 pages, Simon and Schuster, $23.99 The Final Testament of the Holy Bible By James Frey 398 pages, Gagosian, $50 You can find divine justification for just about anything. One preacher declares that God wants us to be “loving and compassionate,” but…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: Hanukkah Edition, Part 2
Cook the book makes “Kosher Revolution’s” Be-All, End-All Chicken Soup. Check out the recipe. [Serious Eats] Two Jewish brothers are heating up the kitchens at some of Brooklyn’s hottest restaurants. [Jewcy] Microbrews for Hanukkah and some Jewish beer history. Bottoms Up! [NPR] The recently shorn Matisyahu shares his recipe for vegan sufganiot. [Grubstreet] Some kosher…
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Opinion The Grinch Stole Chrismukkah
In my opinion, Jews shouldn’t celebrate Christmas. And that was the sentence that launched a thousand lips. I encapsulated my feelings on Jews and Christmas in a blog post I wrote for Kveller, a Jewish parenting website for which I am a contributing editor. I wrote that “if you really look at the meanings of…
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Life My Jewish Daughter’s First Christmas
What makes this Christmas different from all other Christmases? For the first time, I have had to explain my typically unspoken understanding that this all-encompassing holiday is not ours. Whenever my 7-month-old daughter, Lila, and I take walks, I name and explain everything we see. In recent weeks, that has included the pretty Christmas lights…
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Food The Maca-Bee Cocktail
During Hanukkah, there’s nothing like a nice cocktail to wash down the epic amounts of fried food. Rob Corwin and Danny Jacobs, who created the popular Sipping Seder have come to the holiday rescue once again with their newest Maca-bee Cocktail, a mix of bourbon, honey syrup, lemon juice, and macadamia nut liqueur. “The Maca-bee…
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Recipes Savoring the Miracle: Hanukkah Side Salads
The miracle of Hanukkah was not, alas, brought about by a latke. The eternal flame, it seems, was kept alive not by everyone’s favorite fried Jewish food, but by olive oil. According to historians, there can be little doubt that the oil used to light the menorah 2,200 years ago was olive oil. In ancient…
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Life Interfaith Mom Is Wrong About Chrismukkah
Dear Susan Katz Miller: Most of the points you make in your recent HuffPo piece, “8 Reasons My Interfaith Family Celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas,” make so little sense, from where I sit as a Jewish mother, that I feel compelled to respond. I am aware that by doing so I am wading into the roiling…
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