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The grade-schooler whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral is back with a Hanukkah song

Bibi Shapiro collaborated with South African singer Choni Goldman, whom he met because of his earlier video, on “Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah.”

Israeli man stabbed by Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City Saturday, Palestinian assailant shot dead

The stabbing was the second incident of suspected terrorism in Jerusalem in less than two weeks after a Hamas gunman opened fire in the Old City on Nov. 21, killing an Israeli man, Eliyahu Kay.

Kosher food becomes a BDS flashpoint on a Toronto college campus

A Jewish campus group said a change to the student union’s BDS policy would make it even harder to distribute kosher food on campus.

Culture

At University of Chicago’s 75th Latke-Hamantash Debate, a little bit of history and a lot of ‘noshalogical’ theories

United States

A California university could rename library honoring a Nazi sympathizer

Politics

The Democratic Socialists of America will not expel Jamaal Bowman for his trip to Israel

New York

An anti-vaccine ad by an Orthodox group briefly took over a Crown Heights bus stop

Global

Traditional Japanese candles and tops get a Hanukkah spin in Kyoto

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