Sunday Features

A Strands shanda? NYT game misspells Hanukkah in Festival of Lights-themed puzzle

Several of the Jewish foods included in the word search also raised eyebrows.

Jimmy Carter, former president who brokered first Arab-Israeli peace accord, is dead at 100

The president who secured the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord in 1978 went on to become the target of vitriol for his warnings that Israel was headed toward apartheid.

Ideas

The Persian winter solstice tradition of Yalda pairs perfectly with Hanukkah

A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without fried donuts.

RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Israel has a decade of lessons to offer.

From ‘A Real Pain’ to ‘The Brutalist’ and beyond, Jewish movies were everywhere in 2024. What does it mean?

Timothée Chalamet doesn’t talk much about his Judaism. But it turns out his grandfather was an important Jewish writer from the Bronx.

Salvador Dali’s little-known series about the founding of Israel comes to a Holocaust museum on Long Island

‘The Brutalist,’ the epic new movie getting Oscar buzz, is built from the stories of postwar Jewish architects

‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack on Israeli Olympians

Despite ceasefire, residents of northern Israel are wary of return, fearing another Oct. 7

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