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The menorah in front of Alameda City Hall was found smashed on the first day of Hanukkah, Dec. 11, 2020.

Bay Area

Alameda City Hall menorah found in pieces on first day of Hanukkah

On the first day of Hanukkah, the public menorah in front of Alameda City Hall was found torn down and smashed. Next to it, the city’s Christmas tree had…
By Dan Pine Dec 11, 2020
The giant menorah in Union Square in San Francisco on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 10, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

Bay Area

The pandemic can’t stop SF's Union Square menorah lighting

It wouldn’t have been a first-night Hanukkah celebration in this year of tumult without at least something unexpected happening. Sure enough, as Rabbi…
By Gabriel Greschler Dec 11, 2020
Snow falls on a Hanukkah Menorah made of ice in Tomsk, Russia, Dec. 8, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Levy Kaminetsky)

World

A Siberian synagogue has a 10-foot menorah made of ice

A synagogue in Tomsk, a Siberian city in Russia, has unveiled a giant Hanukkah menorah made of ice. The 10-foot menorah was erected Tuesday inside the…
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Dec 11, 2020
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff send Hanukkah greetings in a video, Dec. 10, 2020. (Screenshot from Twitter)

U.S.

Hanukkah greetings from Trump, Biden, Harris — and Emhoff

2020 has one thing going for it: This year’s Hanukkah messages from the United States’ top leaders were ample, and for the first time included a Jewish…
By Shira Hanau, JTA Dec 11, 2020
The Maccabees depicted in a page from a 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript.

Torah

The Maccabees stood up to the wicked — we need to do the same

The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Hanukkah recalls a time more than 2,000 years ago…
By Rabbi Dov Greenberg Dec 11, 2020
In this picture from a 2018 White House Hanukkah party, an attendee wears a kippah with an image of U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo/JTA-Oliver Contreras-Pool-Getty Images)

Politics

Cries of ‘four more years’ at Trump’s final White House Hanukkah party

To cries of “four more years,” President Donald Trump told guests at a White House Hanukkah party that he could stay in office “if certain people have…
By Ron Kampeas, JTA Dec 10, 2020
The New York Times building on Eighth Avenue in New York City. (Photo/Flickr-samchills)

Opinion

Does The New York Times have a Hanukkah problem?

Jewish Twitter was not amused by a New York Times op-ed by an author saying why she no longer celebrates Hanukkah. Sarah Prager, an historian of LGBTQ…
By Andrew Silow-Carroll, Jewish Week Dec 9, 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)

Music

Orthodox rapper Nissim Black reinvents ‘Hava Nagila’

The latest single by Nissim Black, a pathbreaking Orthodox hip-hop artist, reimagines what may be the mostly widely known Jewish song. “The Hava Song,”…
By Laura E. Adkins, JTA Dec 9, 2020
Bad Walter’s “rolling in gelt” (chocolate) and sufganiyot (doughnut) ice cream flavors. (Photo/Courtesy Bad Walter’s)

Small Bites

Get your gelt on with Bad Walter’s Hanukkah ice cream flavors

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. We just got word about a new tiny-batch ice cream operation in Oakland…
By Alix Wall Dec 9, 2020
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