Culture

India’s Jew Town only has a handful of Jews left. But Jewish traditions and landmarks remain.

The city of Kochi, a multicultural crossroads at the heart of the spice trade, was once home to thousands of Jews who fused Jewish and Indian identity.

Smokey Robinson goes viral for mispronouncing Hanukkah as ‘Chanooka’

“I have no idea what ‘chanooka’ is, but happy ‘chanooka,’ because they said so,” Robinson says in a Cameo video.

Rio inaugurates long-awaited Holocaust memorial with 72-foot-tall tower

The memorial overlooks one of South America’s most famous landmarks.

Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters singer, is pumping out covers of songs by Jewish artists for Hanukkah

‘They also happen to be Jewish’: Daveed Diggs on representing Jews of color in his new Hanukkah video

‘It’s the mensch off the bench on Hanukkah!’: Israeli Deni Avdija shines in first NBA preseason game

The table used to stop Monsey attacker is turned into a menorah stand

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

Happy Hanukkah wishes arrive from Trump, Biden and Harris — and Emhoff

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

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

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