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"Projecting Light in a Time of Darkness," a video art installation at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, will be visible every night of Hanukkah. (Photos/Heidi Sanders)
Posted inCulture

Historical light show illuminates Emanu-El for Hanukkah week

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
a black and white picture of a man and a woman sitting on a bench. she is holding flowers which have been artificially colored bright purple
Posted inBooks

A harrowing tale of survival wrapped around a love story 

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
A kid hoping for a puppy as a present in Daveed Diggs' new Hanukkah song. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inHanukkah

‘They also happen to be Jewish’: Daveed Diggs on representing Jews of color in his new Hanukkah video

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 14, 2020
Jewish hip-hop singer Nissim Black performs during a Hanukkah festival in Pittsburgh in 2018. (Photo/JTA-Esther Wayne-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Orthodox rapper Nissim Black’s new single, ‘The Hava Song,’ remakes ‘Hava Nagila’ just in time for Hanukkah

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and JTA December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
Gary Oldman plays Herman Mankiewicz in "Mank." (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inTV & Film

Screenwriter behind ‘Citizen Kane’ gets his due on Netflix

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA December 9, 2020
Game designer Max Fefer based Hanukkah Goblins on Eric Kimmel’s classic children’s book, "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins." (Art/Kali Hayes, KH Illustration)
Posted inHolidays

Take on the Hanukkah goblins in Oakland designer’s new tabletop game

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 8, 2020December 9, 2020
Nataliya Olshanskaya plays Natasha in "Birth Right." (Photo/JTA-Ilya Marcus)
Posted inTV & Film

A short film offers new perspective on Birthright — through the eyes of young Russian Jews

by Stephen Silver and JTA December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, Dec. 22, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Eduardus Lee)
Posted inHanukkah

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

by JTA December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
From the cover of "The Berenstain Bears: God Bless Our Country"
Posted inParenting

Since when are the Berenstain Bears evangelical Christians — and do I still want them in our neighborhood library?

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein December 7, 2020
Susan Katz is an author and founder of ConnectingAuthors. (Photo/Courtesy Katz)
Posted inTalking With ...

A writer who helps kids calm racing minds

by Liz Harris December 7, 2020

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