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Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)
February 19, 2018, 6:23 pm
When our woman in Havana asked Fidel Castro to the synagogue Hanukkah party
Adela Dworin doesn't have to live in Cuba. Her friends left for Miami long ago. So why does she stay, running and schnorring for the Jewish community? Here's her story, and Cuba's
By David Horovitz
Snow-covered decorations at Dyker Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY known for its extravagant displays every Christmas, on December 9, 2017. (iStock)
December 25, 2017, 10:38 am
A cure for Christmas envy
I loved the glorious tinsel and lights, the bubbly high spirits, the parties, and TV’s endless parade of happy families
By Helen Maryles Shankman
In this December 8, 2017, file photo, US President Donald Trump takes to the stage at a campaign-style rally at the Pensacola Bay Center, in Pensacola, Florida. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
December 23, 2017, 3:03 pm
There’s no missing Trump’s ‘Merry Christmas’ message
After years complaining about a diminished focus on the festival, US president has for weeks been sprinkling his public remarks with Christmas tidings
By Catherine Lucey
Illustrative: Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with the Bible Quiz winners. (Marc Israel/Flash90)
December 22, 2017, 11:52 am
The time I interrupted the prime minister
How wonderful to be allowed to speak out against Israel's involvement in the torment of the Rohingya
By Chaya Houpt
Illustrative image of Foch Square in the Corsican capital Ajaccio. (Wikipedia/Jean-Pol Grandmont/CC BY)
December 21, 2017, 5:15 pm
Corsica just had its first public Hanukkah celebration, local rabbi says
Event serves as 'an important message of tolerance,' says Laurent Marcangeli, mayor of the island's largest city Ajaccio
By JTA
A vandalized hanukkiya, or Hanukkah candelabra, outside the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate City, New Jersey, December 17, 2017. (Twitter screen capture)
December 20, 2017, 7:07 pm
Three public menorahs vandalized near Atlantic City
Local police treating incidents as hate crimes; all candelabra repaired in time to light them over Hanukkah
By JTA
Thousands mourn at the funeral of four members of the Azan family killed in a Booklyn housefire, Aliza Azan, 39, and three of her children Moshe, 11, Yitzchak, 7, and three-year-old Henrietta, in Holon on December 20, 2017. (FLASH90)
December 20, 2017, 3:35 pm
Mother, 3 children killed in NY Hanukkah house fire buried in Israel
Father, reportedly unaware of scope of tragedy, and two other children still hospitalized in US with serious burns
By JTA and TOI staff
A Hanukkah menorah (Flash90)
December 20, 2017, 3:14 pm
We make our own miracles
The Maccabees sighed, rolled up their sleeves, and got to work as a community -- which earned them God's blessing
By Yitzchak Besser
David Rogovoy, the World Bnei Akiva emissary to Germany, lights a menorah on outside the Berlin Christmas market where a truck deliberately drove into a crowd last year. (Screen capture: Facebook)
December 20, 2017, 2:38 am
Hanukkah menorahs lit at sites of terrorist attacks around world
Bnei Akiva emissaries lead lighting ceremonies in Amsterdam, Germany, Manchester and Jerusalem
By JTA
Rey in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi.' (Screenshot/Courtesy Walt Disney/Lucasfilms)
December 19, 2017, 3:45 pm
On Hanukkah and Star Wars
Both the holiday and the blockbuster teach that the struggle of light against dark is eternal
By Michael Knopf
Police and firefighters converge on the scene of a fatal fire in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Dec. 18, 2017 (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
December 19, 2017, 4:52 am
NYC fire officials confirm lit menorah sparked fatal Hanukkah blaze
'So often, tragedy strikes at this time of year,' commissioner says of fire that killed mother and 3 kids, noting father 'acted very courageously' in saving other children
By TOI staff
The cast of "The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical," including guest star Bruce Vilance (center), in 2016. A film version of the musical comedy will be screened on Dec. 19, 2017 (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment)
December 18, 2017, 10:25 pm
Hanukkah gets a kitschy ‘Nutcracker’ treatment for the holiday’s last night
The film version of a musical comedy based on Festival of Lights to screen at hundreds of US movie theaters on December 19
By Matt Lebovic
Screen capture from video of a house fire in Brooklyn that killed four people, December 18, 2017. (YouTube)
December 18, 2017, 9:06 pm
Brooklyn fire that killed mother, 3 kids may have been started by menorah
Bodies of victims reportedly to be flown to Israel for burial; father, 2 other children remain in critical condition
By TOI staff
Sufganiyot from the Brooklyn Bakery in Mea Shearim, December 2017. (Hilary Faverman)
December 18, 2017, 3:50 pm
The unholy Doughnut War of Hanukkah 2017
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't tasted them myself, but, yes, pareve triumphed over dairy
By Hilary Faverman
Haim at Way Out West, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden (Kim Metso, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
December 17, 2017, 4:45 pm
This year, a girl band leads the Hanukkah vid hit parade
Ghosts of Hanukkahs past and present to get any candle lighting lit this season
By Tracy Frydberg
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