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Austin Chabad lights menorah at highway overpass where neo-Nazis hung antisemitic banners

“We will transform these sites to places of light,” said Rabbi Yosef Levertov, director of Chabad Lubavitch Austin.

Stephen Colbert thinks there aren’t enough Hanukkah movies, so he made up some of his own

Some of Colbert’s fake “brand new Hanukkah classics” have the titles “Casino Dreidale,” “Eight Knights of Hanukkah” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rabbi.”

Facing protest from his socialist allies, Rep. Jamaal Bowman opens up about his recent trip to Israel

The New York Democrat faced heat from conservatives and progressives for traveling to Israel with J Street.

Politics

Israel’s deputy foreign minister aims to woo progressives, but Israeli policies get in the way

New York

Orthodox Union and its youth group sued over handling of past sexual abuse allegations

New York

Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz, Jewish hip-hop royalty, remix Adam Sandler’s ‘Chanukah song’ on the streets of New York

Culture

Cartman converts to Judaism on ‘South Park,’ after decades of tormenting Jews

New York

An Upper West Side Jewish day school’s Thanksgiving parade went viral on TikTok

Israel

A journalist breaking Orthodoxy’s biggest sexual abuse stories says he wishes he didn’t have to

Culture

From Daveed Diggs to Andy Cohen to HAIM, here’s how celebrities are celebrating Hanukkah in 2021

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