Dec 14, 2025
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Lighting the menora.
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Reblog to light your own menora! :)
We need more Hanukkah movies/specials. Real ones, not reskinned Hallmark movies. The only ones I can think of are:
A Rugrats Chanukah - a classic for us 90s kids.
Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah- I bet your grandparents had a copy on VHS.
Full Court Miracle - actually a really enjoyable Disney Channel Original Movie and one of two "basketball+ethnic holiday" movies they made, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
Eight Crazy Nights - no further comment
What, we couldn't even get to eight movies? We somehow control the entertainment industry and the best we could do is two specials, a TV movie, and a single theatrical release between 1995 and 2003?
I mean sure this plays nicely into my theory that the 90s were an unparalleled time of normalized (i.e. not gawking) Jewish visibility in US media that we have not seen since... but it doesn't have to be! The era of streaming and nonstop content means there has to be at least one desperate coked-out executive who'll throw money at us just to get content to push for the holidays.
You can have this one for free (just do a special thanks in the credits everyone will skip): Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanuka! A spelling bee + Hanukkah movie.
It’s Kislev!!!
*chanting of “sufganiyot! sufganiyot!” intensifies*
What sinfully cheesy things are we making for our Chanuka parties??
Happy Hanukkah and remember: there’s absolutely NO wrong way to spell it!
Happy December! We are now under two weeks away from Hanukkah!
This challenge now has an AO3 collection (ChanukahChallenge5786). Posting to the collection is completely optional!
Prompts (see pinned post for text version, rules, etc.):
Shoutout to my girl Magdalena Gudzińska-Adamczyk, a Jewish doctor, who was the only person fighting with a disgrace of a human Grzegorz Braun while he was using fire extinguisher on chanuka candles in Polish Parliment. In response he hit her and told her she is not a woman.
Okonomiyaki - Recipe
can I just say that a) I did not realize such a simple recipe would be so freaking good, b) cabbage can be this good, and c) this is perfectttt for Chanukah!!! It's basically cabbage latkes
the cabbage becomes sweet and you can brush soy sauce on top if you want it to be more savoury
🕎 HAPPY CHANUKAH!!!!! 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🔥🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
The Recipe - Makes 5 okonomiyaki
Ingredients
1 cup finely shredded cabbage (⅙ cabbage)
1/3 cup panko
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
Directions
In a large bowl, combine the cabbage, panko, and salt.
Gently mix in the egg.
Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat.
Brush the skillet with oil. Measure ¼ cup mixture, flatten gently with a spatula.
Cook for 3 min per side. Turn the heat to low and back to medium per batch (or as needed, just make sure they cook long enough. if they fry too fast they may be golden but the cabbage won't be nice and soft)
For a more savoury flavour, brush with soy sauce.
The Process
original: https://www.loveandlemons.com/okonomiyaki/#wprm-recipe-container-46970
notes:
this is a smaller proportioned recipe, I usually make them smaller when I test them out so I don't end up with a lot of food I don't like
taste them before and after soy sauce to see which you like better. I like both!
This year, the first day of Hanukkah falls on the same day as Christmas.
These students at Thomas Jefferson High School (400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn) and other local students lit a menorah in 1945.
Photo: Brooklyn Eagle via the NY Times