The Art of the Dreidel
Hanukkah began on Wednesday at sundown, and for most kids that means just one thing: lots and lots of dreidels. The game is pretty simple: spin a four-sided top, and depending on which side it lands...
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Last Chance Foods: Hanukkah Doughnut Delights
Hanukkah starts at sundown on Tuesday, and that makes a delightful justification for eating foods fried in oil. The holiday commemorates the miracle of one night’s worth of oil lasting for eight...
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How to Master Hanukkah: Hosting, Frying and All
Growing up in a quite secular Israeli home, Hanukkah was always considered the children’s holiday. As kids we had eight days off from school while the grownups didn’t get any time off from work. Plus,...
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Last Chance Foods: A Whole Latke Love
Hanukkah celebrations wrap up this Sunday, which means that there’s still time this weekend to celebrate the Festival of Lights with fried food. Einat Admony, the chef of Balaboosta and Taïm, says now...
View ArticleThe Art of the Dreidel
Hanukkah began on Wednesday at sundown, and for most kids that means just one thing: lots and lots of dreidels. The game is pretty simple: spin a four-sided top, and depending on which side it lands...
View ArticleHappy Hanukkah from Ben Kweller: Remixing the Holidays
Hanukkah kicks off at sundown tonight. And while the festival of lights is famous for a lot of things — like potato latkes and eight nights of presents — it’s often underappreciated for its music.That...
View ArticlePress Release of the Day: Candles That Smell Like Burgers
As with our inaugural press-release-of-the-day item yesterday, this one combines two things that publicists absolutely love -- invoking holiday spirit, and attaching an important social cause (hunger,...
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Last Chance Foods: Hanukkah Doughnut Delights
Hanukkah starts at sundown on Tuesday, and that makes a delightful justification for eating foods fried in oil. The holiday commemorates the miracle of one night’s worth of oil lasting for eight...
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How to Master Hanukkah: Hosting, Frying and All
Growing up in a quite secular Israeli home, Hanukkah was always considered the children’s holiday. As kids we had eight days off from school while the grownups didn’t get any time off from work. Plus,...
View ArticleA Great Miracle Happened There
A conversation between Rabbi Ismar Schorsch and host Larry Josephson about the history, rituals, foods and meaning of Hanukkah--and its importance to American Jews in our time. Cantors David Lefkowitz...
View ArticleNew Music for Hanukkah
On this edition of New Sounds, there’s new music for Hanukkah, featuring the Klezmatics, the Abayudaya project of Jewish music from Uganda, music by accordionist Ted Reichman, and more. Hear selections...
View ArticleThe Holiday Party the Cold War Hijacked
On December 27, 1951, the Brownsville Boy's Club hosted 5,000 children to an inter-faith party at the 106th Regiment Armory in Brooklyn. The inter-faith party (probably a relatively novel concept in...
View ArticleHow to Help | Post-Sandy Holidays
Looking to help a family affected by Hurricane Sandy? We're collecting a list of places to donate, volunteer and receive help for the holidays.All locationsBe a Secret Santa:Secret Sandy is a...
View ArticleWhich Holiday Songs Creep You Out?
"He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake." Yikes. Voiceover from a horror film trailer? No! Those are just some mildly disturbing lyrics from the beloved Christmas classic, "Santa...
View ArticleWNYC Holiday Specials 2012
Hanukkah Lights 2012Airs Saturday, December 8 at 12pm on AM 820 and 3pm on 93.9 FM A perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly...
View ArticleRemembering Dave Brubeck, Jewish Xmas Music, Trail Of Dead
Today on Soundcheck: We pay tribute to jazz legend Dave Brubeck, who died yesterday the day before what would have been his 92nd birthday. A new compilation explores both the musical history of...
View ArticleTwas The Night Before Hanukkah: Jewish Songwriters And The Christmas Songbook
It's December, and that means that the airwaves are full of holiday music -- well, Christmas music. But when was the last time you heard a Hanukkah song on the radio or at the mall? Now, a new...
View ArticleHanukkah Lights 2012
Airs Saturday, December 8 at noon on AM820 and 3pm on 93.9FMA perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, as read...
View ArticleHandel’s Judas Maccabaeus
On this special episode of the Choral Mix we honor Chanukah, the Festival of Lights. We explore selections from George Frideric Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus.Handel, a master at oratorio, composed this...
View ArticleAt White House Party, Long Island Menorah Becomes Symbol of Resilience
A Long Island menorah that survived Sandy will be taking center stage at the White House Hanukkah party Thursday evening.Rabbi David Bauman of Temple Israel of Long Beach says he was shocked and amazed...
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