Hanukkah

5 easy ways to get the smell of fried latkes out of your house

Some solutions to that loathsome odor that permeates the house after the frying fest of Hanukkah.

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Tony Blinken

A Netanyahu adviser once gave Tony Blinken Hanukkah joke advice. Thankfully, he ignored it.

Blinken was sent a series of bizarre Hanukkah jokes to pass on to President Bill Clinton, who was visiting Israel during the holiday in 1998.

Ideas

We let our kids plan Hanukkah this year — and it taught me so much about the holiday

The beauty of Hanukkah — and especially of experiencing it while amidst a global pandemic — is that we have the opportunity to make it our own.

Ideas

Hanukkah isn’t a major Jewish holiday. This year, maybe it should be.

Culture

Meet the rabbi-and-sabermetrician duo behind Virtual Dreidel, a game made for pandemic Hanukkah

Women celebrate Rosh Chodesh el Banat in Jerusalem, Israel in December 2019. (Aliza Lavie)

Global

Israelis want to bring back North African Jewry’s feminist Hanukkah tradition

Ideas

I knew Hanukkah celebrated defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens and the story got complicated.

Food

The easiest Hanukkah jelly doughnut recipe ever

judaism & divorce

Ideas

When my marriage ended, I discovered Judaism is more important to me than I realized

United States

The girl whose hair caught fire at Bill Clinton’s Hanukkah event is now a lawyer who doesn’t light a menorah at home

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