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The girl whose hair caught fire at Bill Clinton’s Hanukkah event is now a lawyer who doesn’t light a menorah at home

Slate caught up with Ilana Kattan 27 years after the incident. We found the video.

Indie rockers Yo La Tengo condense traditional 8 nights of Hanukkah concerts into 1 streaming show

The band has held Hanukkah concerts since 2001.

Orthodox rapper Nissim Black’s new single, ‘The Hava Song,’ remakes ‘Hava Nagila’ just in time for Hanukkah

The reimagining of “Hava Nagila” features the Orthodox Jewish solo artist rapping about gratitude, his place in Jewish society and the coming Messianic age.

Game designer Max Fefer based Hanukkah Goblins on Eric Kimmel’s classic children’s book, "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins." (Art/Kali Hayes, KH Illustration)

A new game lets you play Hanukkah goblins and shoot jelly doughnuts

Men have dominated Jewish texts for most of history. These women are trying to change that.

Dutch government criticizes country’s own Holocaust restitution policy that has blocked families from return of stolen art

2 virtual Yiddish specials for Hanukkah: A Folksbiene ‘spectacular’ and a celebratory performance of ‘The Dybbuk’

Looking for a new menorah? 2 of Elizabeth Taylor’s are up for sale.

Roald Dahl’s family apologizes ‘for the lasting and understandable hurt’ caused by his anti-Semitism

The real story behind ‘Mank,’ the new movie about the Jewish screenwriter who brought us ‘Citizen Kane’

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