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Hanukkah

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff send Hanukkah greetings in a video, Dec. 10, 2020. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

Happy Hanukkah wishes arrive from Trump, Biden, Harris — and Emhoff

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 11, 2020
The Maccabees depicted in a page from a 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript.
Posted inTorah

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

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg December 11, 2020December 10, 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)
Posted inHanukkah

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

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
The New York Times building on Eighth Avenue in New York City. (Photo/Flickr-samchills)
Posted inHolidays

Does The New York Times have a Hanukkah problem?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and Jewish Week December 9, 2020December 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)
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
Bad Walter’s “rolling in gelt” (chocolate) and sufganiyot (doughnut) ice cream flavors. (Photo/Courtesy Bad Walter’s)
Posted inColumns

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

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 9, 2020December 10, 2020
Sufganiyot! Even you can make them at home. We promise. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inJewish Life

How to make tasty sufganiyot (Hanukkah donuts) at home

ISRAEL21c logo by ISRAEL21c December 8, 2020December 8, 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
Smashed fried plantains topped with Cuban-style pot roast make a perfect Hanukkah appetizer. (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inRecipe

Fried plantains and Cuban-style pot roast bring new flavors to Hanukkah

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer December 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

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