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From ‘Amy Winehouse sound’ creators, a funky Hanukkah anthem

Retro band Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings kicks off its new holiday album with “8 Days of Hanukkah” — an upbeat marriage of catchy soul music and Jewish cultural references.

8 of the coolest menorahs for this Hanukkah season

Another Hanukkah season means another chance to impress with a creative menorah choice.

The ‘Kate Middleton effect’ on synagogue fashion

Why the ornate headpieces known as fascinators are all the rage among stylish observant women.

The Year Jesus Came to Thanksgiving. Sorry, Jews, etc.

The Year Jesus Came to Thanksgiving. (Sorry, Jews, et al.)

Meet Oren Hazan, Israel’s most scandalous lawmaker

How the Chabad rebbe helped create food stamps, and other Jewish Medal of Freedom stories

For Jimmy Carter’s chief of staff, being Jewish was a family secret

Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son — wins National Book Award

What Obama did and didn’t say about Ezra Schwartz

Einstein once kept kosher, and 7 other Jewish facts for relativity’s 100th b’day

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