Happy Hanukkah to all!

Leslie Klein

This is Surrey Klein. She is 8 years

old and lives in Ballard. With the
help of her family — those
members of her family with
opposable thumbs — she put
together and decorated the
tzedakah box that came
with the JTNews Tzedakah
Book. Surrey says she’s
pretty sure that kids would
have a good time doing this
as well, then filling up the box
with coins to give to people in
need this Hanukkah.

how to celebrate Hanukkah this year

Despite Hanukkah falling so early
on the calendar this year — we’ll hardly
have time to fit into our pants again after
Thanksgiving — opportunities to cele-
brate abound. Synagogues all over the state
are having their own parties — you can
find details at any synagogue’s Web site
or at the online community calendar at
calendar.jtnews.net — but here are a few
that draw people in from near and far, and
can help the less fortunate among us at the
same time.
The MAZON Hanukkah party: Feeding us to fight hunger
Pip and Miriam Meyerson have worked hard to throw this
party for about six years now. There’s the procurement (how many
pounds of potatoes do you need to make latkes for 200?), the menu
planning, the cooking, the table setting, the buffet replenishing,
and then the hoping: Hoping people will come, hoping people will
eat, hoping the people won’t eat too much.
“It’s a really nice dinner,” says Pip, “It’s a great communal event,
and with the candle lighting and the music, families gathering
— it’s an evening of surprises.”
But most important is the hope that the people who come
to this Hanukkah party and dinner, which benefits MAZON: A
Jewish Response to Hunger, will remember that though their food
needs are being met for this evening, a lot of others’ — including
many who at some point probably gave generously at a previous
MAZON event — are not.
The Meyersons have been making traditional Jewish food in
Seattle since the 1970s, first at the Matzoh Momma deli and now
as a catering business. They have long been devoted to ensuring
that the people without the means to feed themselves get fed. But
it was in 2003 that they, along with Rabbi Jim Mirel and several
other friends in Seattle’s Jewish community, decided to turn this
into more of a Jewish event.
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“It’s difficult out there,” says Miriam.
“We are so privileged here — I have to
underline that — and I think people need
to have that perspective.”
If
you
go:
The MAZON Hanukkah Celebration
takes place on Sun., Dec. 5 from
5:30–8:30 p.m. at Temple De Hirsch
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a Jewish communal organization like
MAZON, that distributes its moneys to
secular non-Jewish — probably predom-
inantly secular organizations — at this
particular time in our history. It’s very
important that the greater community
sees the support and outreach coming
form the Jewish community to them.”
But it’s also a party, and the Meyersons
hope that their night of a thousand latkes,
as they call it, will bring out people and
their families from all across the commu-
nity, as it has done for so many years, to
open their hearts and wallets in exchange
for some great salmon and even better
memories.
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What is the first thing that pops into
your mind when you think about Hanuk-
kah? For many, it’s the winter holiday’s
central activity — the candle lighting.
Hanukkah just doesn’t feel like Hanukkah
if you’re not basking in the glow of those
colored candles, which is exactly the feel-
ing planners of this year’s community-
wide family celebration hopes to recreate.
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If
you
go:
“Coming Home for Hanukkah”
takes place on Sun., Dec. 5 from
11 a.m.–2 p.m. at the Stroum
Jewish Community Center, 3801
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Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, one
of the co-planners of “Coming Home for
Hanukkah,” to be held at the Stroum Jewish
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by the teens in the JCC’s CenterStage the-
ater troupe; a mitzvah project activity room
that will allow anyone to help bag dry goods
for the Jewish Family Service food bank;
and, of course, dreidel.
It wouldn’t be a Jewish event without
food — and even that will be a commu-
nity project. J Team, the group of teens
that spends a year learning about charities
both local and worldwide, then divides up
a pot of money to donate to these organi-
zations, will be selling the goodies to raise
funds to increase their pool of funds. In
addition, the Rainier BBYO chapter will be
selling jelly doughnuts, a traditional Israeli
Hanukkah treat.
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The event will culminate in the gym,
with the lights turned low, as families will
get together for a sing-a-long and then a
candle lighting of more than 100 meno-
rahs around the room. Many hanukkiot
will be on hand, but families are invited
to bring their own so they can recreate the
coziness of the holiday and bask in its glow
with the other families around them.
“It should be amazing,” Greenhall
said.
Spinning, spinning, spinning: The Big Spin
When the women who founded the
Mitzvah Mama Guild for Seattle Chil-
dren’s Hospital held their first Big Spin
event last year, they raised $12,000 to take
a bite out of the more than $96 million in
uncompensated care the hospital provided
in 2009. That number is already expected
to be much higher for 2010 — as much as
$150 million.
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you
go:
The Big Spin gets spun on
Sun., Dec. 12 from 2–5 p.m. at the
Museum of History and Industry,
2700 24th Ave. E, Seattle. Cost of
$48/adult, $36/kid age 1 and up
includes concert, activities, and a
goodie bag. Visit thebigspin.org to
purchase tickets online.
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tion so far has been small, it still makes
a big difference, this year they’re doing it
even bigger. They’ve still got the fun stuff
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A twist on Hanukkah giving
Dasee Berkowitz JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — Hanukkah is the
holiday that celebrates Jewish distinctiveness
over assimilation. The Maccabees — zealots
to some, freedom fighters to others — fought
to preserve a sense of Jewish distinctiveness
in the face of the Assyrian Greeks and other
Jews who were attracted to their ways.
So to really celebrate Hanukkah this
year, let’s ask ourselves: What makes us
Jews distinct? How can we celebrate our
distinctiveness in ways that strengthen our
own identities and the Jewish identity of
our families? How can we bring the best of
what Judaism has to offer to our commu-
nities and to the larger society?
The concept of tzedakah is one of Juda-
ism’s great contributions to the world
— Ethical Monotheism, the Ten Com-
mandments, and the concept of Shabbat
rank way up there, too. Jewish tradition
posits giving tzedakah as an obligation
(according to Maimonides, 20 percent of
your income is average, with 10 percent
as the minimum) and holds that this obli-
gation rests on everybody, not just the
well-off (the Shulchan Aruch states that
“even one who is supported by tzedakah
is required to give from what he has been
given”). This offers a paradigm for a just
and supportive society that holds rampant
consumerism in check.
So I propose that this Hanukkah,
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instead of pouring our creative energies
into giving material gifts, we use that cre-
ativity to dedicate each night and each
candle to a different aspect of giving.
Candle 1: Have an intimate dinner
with family and friends. Learn about the
issues of most concern to them, then set
aside the money you would spend on a
material gift to make a contribution to that
organization or cause in their honor.
Candle 2: Follow up on the first night’s
activity and, if the cause is local, arrange to
go on a site visit to learn more about the
organization’s work and how you can get
involved. This activity is especially good
for parents with young children.
Candle 3: Be on the lookout for charity
events in your area. Dedicate yourself to
expanding your horizons on issues in the
world in need of addressing.
Candle 4: Think about someone in
your life in immediate need. Bring them
Hanukkah-themed treats such as cook-
ies in the shape of dreidels or homemade
Hanukkah cards.
Candle 5: Get your charitable giving in
order. If eight nights of eating latkes and
jelly donuts becomes too much for you,
take the night off and plan ahead for the
coming fiscal year. Make a plan.
Candle 6: Give more than your money
and time — give of your values. Think
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about a value that is important to you that
you haven’t had time to develop (does
the refrain “too busy” ring a bell?) and do
an activity that reflects that value with a
spouse, child or friend.
Candle 7: Think about someone else
in your life who is too busy to think about
holiday presents. Give him or her a break.
For a busy parent, this could mean pro-
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building, goodies, the big dreidel where
everyone wins a prize that’s actually valu-
able — but this year will have much more
of a focus on the music.
Co-founder Laura Glass has brought
in three nationally recognized local bands
in the “kindie” music scene, all of whom
are donating their services to the cause:
Caspar Babypants, a.k.a. Chris Ballew,
a.k.a. the guy from the Presidents of
the United States of America who per-
formed last year; Recess Monkey, three
local teachers that have “a firsthand level
of understanding and an intuitive nature
of what kids respond to,” Glass says, and
a fixture at so many community celebra-
tions; and the Not-Its!, a band that dresses
up in ’80s-style and other retro garb and
really appeals to the “tween” population.
“It’s nice having these band there,
straddling the childhood experience, and
to have them under one roof,” Glass says,
in particular because they all are “doing
viding childcare; for a busy professional, it
could be giving your time as a coach.
Candle 8: Have a Hanukkah party and
ask each of your guests to bring a gift to
pass onto a local charity — a nonperishable
food, a children’s toy, books or clothing.
Dasee Berkowitz is a Jewish life-cycle
consultant in New York.
this for the love of Children’s. It’s really
flattering and humbling.”
The three women who came up with
Mitzvah Mama — Seattle Children’s first
specifically Jewish guild —  plus a fourth
who joined them this year all have chil-
dren who spent time at the hospital. They
wanted to do something to acknowledge
their gratitude for what the hospital’s doc-
tors and staff had done for their families,
but on behalf of the Jewish community.
“Once we found out there wasn’t a
Jewish guild…we immediately wanted to
do something about it,” Glass says.
And from that, the 2009 Big Spin was
born. For 2010, they have had much more
time to plan and bring in sponsors. They
have also more than doubled their goal —
to $25,000 — and they are confident they
can do it.
“We’re excited to be doing something
that’s a little different, a little off the beaten
track, [but] also celebrates the commu-
nity,” Glass says. “It really brings this com-
munity together.”
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Bringing great eating and gift ideas to you for the holiday

words By Eric Nusbaum Photos by Joel Magalnick

In the tradition of eating as much deli- We’ll start with Extra Virgin Olive but to Stacy it was “too fishy.” All Joel had to
cious kosher treats as we can so you don’t appetizers: Fellow Oil (Grocery Outlet, say of it was, “Ick.” Joel and Stacy preferred
have to, we welcome you to our annual taster Stacy and I had $5.99). Olivos was the mellower smoked sockeye (PCC, $6.99),
Hanukkah kosher food tasting. As we do a great time mixing an overwhelming but this writer/taster found it lacking kick.
every year, we had the pleasure of trying and matching dif- favorite for its cost, If kick is not your preference, but sub-
out delicious kosher foods that can either ferent cheeses, espe- its flavor (“sweet, tlety is, I highly recommend Dry Soda Co.’s
be served at your gatherings or given as cially the Redwood smooth, delicious!” Vanilla Bean soda (PCC, $5.75 for 4). The
gifts. This year, we got our eats from PCC Chevre (PCC, $5.69) according to Joel), soda was described as “elegant,” “light,”
and, in a stroke of cheap genius, Grocery and Mozzarella Fres- and its packaging, “refreshing,” and “effervescent.” One
Outlet, which has aisles and aisles of high- ca’s bite-sized fresh which Karen called anonymous taster even suggested it would
end kosher packaged foods for far less than mozzarella (Grocery “show-stopping.” make for a great cocktail ingredient.
you’d spend anywhere else — plus some Outlet, $2.99) with But if that’s too There were, alas, no spirits within reach
bonus items sent our way straight from Eden’s organic cherry much work, other at the JTNews office — but we did try some
the source. butter (PCC, $8.49). more easily dip- beer and wine. First off was the He’Brew
In the great tradition of noshing, we “Delish,” said Stacy of able kosher options Jewbelation Fourteen, a dark, strong, and
opted against fully formed main courses the combo. abound. In the symmetrical beer: 14 hops, 14 malts, and
and went for a slew of snacks instead. There If you want to keep hummus depart- 14 percent alcohol (Available at Whole
were crackers and cheeses and chips galore; your noshes centered ment, everyone Foods, Bottleworks in Seattle’s Walling-
piles of cookies and truffles and chocolates; on the Mediterra- agreed that Sabra ford neighborhood, and Central Market).
and of course, beverages — after all, what’s nean region, why not provides the best I won’t say we were
a feast without a glass of beer or wine, or start with some subtle options (Grocery rolling after sharing a
even gourmet soda? rosemary croccan- Outlet, $2.99). Their 22-ounce bottle of the
tini from local bakery spinach and arti- stuff, but I will gladly
La Panzanella (PCC, choke was praised admit that for some of
4.99)? “The best for for its “good flavor” us an afternoon cup of
dips,” according to and “nice texture,” coffee was immensely
Susan. “They really while the Supremely necessary. That said,
allow for the flavors Spicy variety lived up this beer could have
to come through.” to its name (beware replaced the coffee
Build from there with the aforemen- of the peppers) while remaining “smooth to go with some of
tioned cheeses, or drop on a few of Mama and tasty.” the sweets we ate (see
Lil’s Peppers (PCC, 7.49). The peppers Not every item was a consensus success. the Cougar Mountain
are spicy and marinated — the result of For example, I found the Naturally Wild Cookies).
an old Hungarian-Jewish recipe — and Smoked Salmon (Grocery Outlet, $4.99) We also uncorked
go great with cheese and crackers. Top delicious, bursting with salmon taste, and a bottle of Teal Lake
things off with a drizzle of Olivos Organic Janna found it “smoky and very flavorful,” Shiraz (PCC, $14.50)
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— a wine that was roundly enjoyed as
spicy, smooth, and flavorful but drink-
able.
“I’ve had this before,” said Karen, “and
I didn’t even know it was kosher.”
And then we came to dessert. Our
dessert table was, if anything, chocolate-
filled (perhaps this was a reflection on the
JTNews official shoppers, above all else).
We learned that good things come small
and large, simple and elaborate packages.
For a small, elegantly packaged treat,
you can’t go wrong with one of Jo’s
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Grahams (PCC,
$1.50).
These treats were praised as delicate and
“not overly sweet”
by one taster. In
my book, they
were the per-
fect combi-
nation of
sweet and
salty —
and the graham
cracker provided just the right amount
of crunch.
But what if you
want something a bit
more lavish...and a
bit more seasonal? If
that’s the case, then
we suggest Pepper-
mint Place’s Pepper-
mint Truffles (Grocery
Outlet, $2.49). Susan
says praised their mint-
iness and called them
“refreshing.” Stacy
centered on their gift-giving
potential: “Such great packag-
ing for the holidays!” she said.
My favorite combination
of familiar holiday packaging
and creative new taste came
from the Ferrara Pan Choc-
olate’s Toffee Crunch Orange Choco-
late Ball (Grocery Outlet, $1.50). At first
glance, it looked like a regular spherical
chocolate orange, but bite in and discover
something far better. “A great crunch,”
said Joel. And great to share too — just
break open and serve.
For a cozy winter night, however, per-
haps something a bit more familiar should
be in order. On those nights, there’s
always Cougar Mountain Cookies
(PCC, $3.99). Cougar Mountain is a
local favorite, and their flavor of the
month, Double Chocolate XXXX
Stout, would go great by the fireplace
— “they melt in your mouth,” Karen
said. And go great with He’Brew
Jewbelation!
Going chocolate-free for a
moment, note the box of fruit candy
from Liberty Orchards,
the folks who bring you
our state’s official candy,
Aplets & Cotlets. You can’t
go wrong with a classic. Or
as Becky said, “always a
great gift.”
And speaking of clas-
sics, the natural rival for
the title of state candy,
Almond Roca from Brown
& Haley in Tacoma, was
just cited in the Seattle
P-I’s Big Blog as one of
the biggest hits in Chinese
exports. Well, we’ve gone
even bigger. The good folks
at B&H know when they
have a good thing, and even
better, they know when that
good thing should be doubled, then tri-
pled. That’s the idea behind their “clas-
sics,” which clock in at double the size
of your standard foil-wrapped Almond
Roca and with the triple the types of nuts:
Almonds, hazelnuts and cashews on a bed
of chocolate over a chunk of toffee. But
more than anything, they were quadruple
the deliciousness. B’teyavon!
Finding the
aahs and oys of
Jewish toys
Edmon Rodman JTA World News Service
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Want to
increase your odds for Hanukkah fun?
A new market of holiday offerings is
featuring Jewish toys that flash, spin and
challenge — including “No Limit Texas
Dreidel,” a poker version of the classic top
game.
With new Jewish designs from niche
and mainstream manufacturers, finding
something your kids will want won’t be a
stretch. Or if it is, at least it’ll be a wear-
able one.
“We expect Hanukkah silly bands to
sell a ton,” says Laurie Glusman, founder
of the OyToys cyber store, of the Hanuk-
kah-themed variation on the fad elas-
tic wristbands being worn by American
schoolchildren.
The bands, which feature shapes like the
outline of a menorah, Maccabee or dreidel,
come in packs of 18 and sell for $3.99.
“My three kids come home from school
wearing the regular ones,” says Glusman,
who runs her 6-year-old business out of
Atlanta. “It’s great they now have Jewish
ones to trade and wear.”
The bands are part of an inventory of
children’s toys, games, puzzles and craft
sets with a Jewish theme that Glusman says
has been growing since OyToys.com has
been in business.
Among the new offerings, the oldest
Hanukkah toy, the dreidel, is still a “huge
seller,” she says. “No Limit Texas Dreidel”
is a distant cousin of the earliest humble
versions that were made out of lead.
The Texas version combines the dreidel
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ah Box December 1982, and my kibbutz ulpan

had just been invited to light the Hanukkah

Tzeda k menorah for the Israeli Knesset.

Tiny contest!
The Israeli army was deep in the heart
of Lebanon, the Cold War was raging,
talks with the PLO were years away, and
Israel was feeling both isolated and feisty.
Freedom from oppression was the theme
for that year’s holiday, and my six-month
work-study Hebrew immersion pro-
gram had been chosen for this annual
honor because we had so many students
from countries where Jews were being
oppressed.
There was 18-year-old Ahuva, from
Aleppo, whose jaw had been broken by
Syrian border guards when she was caught
during her first escape attempt. She made it
out the second time — on foot.
There was 19-year-old Daoud, now
David, and his twin brother, Ofer, who
grew up Muslim in Beirut and had only
learned that summer they were Jewish,
when their Israeli-born mother revealed
her heritage, divorced her Lebanese hus-
band and dragged the twins to Israel as its
army poured across their border.
How should you decorate a Tiny Tzedakah Box? th e tz ed ak
ah book We had the three French boys in the
because giving
Family pictures, markers, stickers, paint, glitter, beads, InsIde:
Choose your
night and let
feels good
class: Charlie from Morocco, Michel rep-
Bring the whole it shine!

ribbon, collage, found objects … you name it.

family togethe
explore the joy r one night of
of tzedakah, using Hanukkah to

resenting Tunisia, and Didier, whose par-

this step-by-step
guide.
TOP: coin slot

Once you’ve decorated your Tiny Tzedakah Box, send in ents were Algerian.
a photo of yourself holding it, and at least one close-up There was a student from Iran who fled
picture of the Box. E-mail the pictures with your name, after the fall of the shah three years earlier.
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filled with inspiring giving one young man from Glasgow also would
profiles that will help you light a candle, presumably in the name of
and your family celebrate Scottish independence.
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Print one out at home, or Paris who refused in class to use the

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Every entry will be featured The only thing we were missing was a
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JTNews, the voice of Jewish some years away from the great exodus
Washington. of the early 1990s — not a single Boris or
1 Cut out the Tiny Tzedakah Natasha to add to the mix.
Box template on this page. Then I let slip that I spoke Russian. And
Trace around it on card stock my grandparents were from Ukraine —
to make your own box form. sure, they arrived in 1906 and 1912, but our
2. Cut out the form. ulpan teacher was eager to seize upon any
3. Cut out the coin slot. connection, however tangential, to clinch
4. Fold at all dashed lines. that Knesset deal.
5. Tape or glue tabs on the She renamed me Sonia Pitchkopf and
inside of the box. instructed me to prepare a short speech to
6. Decorate! deliver, in Russian-accented Hebrew, as I
lit my candle.
After the laughter died down in class, I
realized the enormity of what I had signed

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on for. This was no Purimspiel. This was
the Parliament of the Jewish State, and here
I was, tasked with pulling a fast one over on
men and women, some of whom certainly
spoke Russian, or at least were capable of
sniffing out a ruse of this magnitude.
As I began writing my speech, I
thought back to my first trip to the USSR.
My Russian class from Cornell landed
in Leningrad on Dec. 31, 1975, and as so
often happened with Jewish visitors from
the West in those years, I found myself
in a Jewish apartment within hours of
my arrival, plucked out of the crowd by a
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pickled vegetables, carrot salad, all kinds
of smoked fish. I learned later how long
the family had scrimped to put together
that holiday meal.
People crowded around me, eager to
ask questions about America.  Was there
really so much street crime?  What did
people think of the pullout from  Viet-
nam? Had I ever been to Israel? I had stars
in my eyes, so excited was I to be in the for-
bidden land of Cossacks and Bolsheviks,
the center of such rapt attention.
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prayer books.
Now you can buy
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Even Urban Out-
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Then two young men dragged out a real? I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t.
book and thrust it into my lap. It was an My ulpan lit the Hanukkah candles
English-language edition of the Encyclo- that year on the floor of the Knesset build-
pedia Judaica they had opened to the page ing in Jerusalem. And when my turn came,
on Hanukkah. One of them pointed to a I was Sue Fishkoff, not Sonia Pitchkopf.
drawing of the nine-branched hanukkiah And I lit in the name of my own grand-
and asked me to explain its use. parents, free in America, and in the name
Thinking he was joking, I smiled. These of the five young men I had met that night
were university-educated people. This in Leningrad.
was the 20th century. He had to be pull- Two of them already were living in
ing my leg. New Jersey. The others were still in Len-
He wasn’t. And I’ll always remember ingrad, now St. Petersburg, as late as 1996,
my shock and sadness as I realized it. the last time I visited them.
So here I was, on my Israeli kibbutz, And my ulpan friends called me Pitch-
purporting to masquerade as people kopf for the rest of the year.
whose pain and isolation were so very
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Heroes or rabble-rousers? The real story of the Maccabees

Gil Shefler JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — In 165 BCE, a
group of warriors led by Judah Maccabee
and his band of brothers ushered in a new
era in Jewish history when they routed the
soldiers of the Greek-Syrian empire and
rededicated the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
That victory, and the miracle of the
menorah that followed, is celebrated
every year by Jews around the world at
Hanukkah.
But if the same thing had happened
today, would contemporary Jews hail the
Maccabees as heroes?
The place in Jewish history of the Mac-
cabees — a nickname for the first mem-
bers of the Hasmonean dynasty that ruled
an autonomous Jewish kingdom — is
much more complex than their popular
image might suggest.
“Historically it was much more com-
plicated, as there were Jews on both sides,”
Jeffrey Rubenstein, professor of Talmud
and rabbinics at New York University,
said of the Maccabee uprising. “Nowa-
days, historians look at the conflict more
in terms of a civil war than a revolt.”
The holiday’s tradition obscures some
of the history of the conflict.
At different periods of history, the Mac-
cabees and their descendants have been
reviled by their fellow Jews, not revered.
The Pharisees, whose teachings became
the tenets of traditional Judaism, consid-
ered them to be usurpers. To the Essenes,
a mysterious sect of Judaism believed to
have thrived on the Western shores of the
Dead Sea, they were wicked.
“My guess is that most liberal Jews
today wouldn’t necessarily get along with
the Maccabees if they showed up again,”
said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the rabbi in resi-
dence at Jewish Funds for Justice.
“Even those of us who are regularly
active in Jewish life may find it hard to
identify with Matityahu, the leader of the
Jewish revolt, whom the first Book of Mac-
cabees depicts as killing a Jew who sacri-
fices to a pagan god,” she wrote in an essay
about the meaning of Hanukkah.
Jacobs argues that Jews should be
aware of the complicated history, though
they do not have to be bound by it.
“In redefining Hanukkah, each gen-
eration considers anew the questions of
assimilation and ethnic identity, the ten-
sion between Judaism as a religion and the
Jewish people as a nation,” she wrote.
Many Jews in ancient times also had
their reservations regarding the exploits of
Judah Maccabee and his brothers.
In the first centuries of the common era,
the Jewish sages of Mesopotamia sought to
minimize the Maccabees’ significance in
the Hanukkah story. These scholars of the
Babylonian Talmud focused instead on
the miracle of the menorah oil, emphasiz-
ing the divine element of the story over the
military victory of the Maccabees.
Richard Kalmin, chairman of rabbinic
literature at the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary, says the rabbis’ irreverent treatment
of the Hasmoneans was based on the con-
cerns of their era.
“The rabbis were competing with a class
of wealthy local Jews over influence,” Kalmin
said. “The stories of the Hasmoneans por-
trayed them as aristocrats, therefore entitled
to be in a position of respect.
“However, the rabbis of Babylonia
thought studying the Torah was more
important. One of the ways in which they
fought for their values was to engage in
propaganda portraying the progenitors
of the Hasmoneans as not coming across
too well.”  perspective of Maccabees as a whole.”
Largely as a result of this, the festival of
lights for centuries focused on the miracle
of the oil. Then, in the late 19th century,
the Zionist movement revived the cult of
the Maccabees. The story of Hanukkah,
which evokes images of warrior Jews fight-
ing for independence, mirrored their own
ambitions, and many early Zionists con-
sidered the holiday more important than
Sukkot or Rosh Hashanah.
“The early Zionists could use the Mac-
cabees as an example of Jews who took
matters into their own hands, as opposed
to the shtetl Jews,” Jacobs said.
Stories like that of Elazar, the youngest
son of Matityahu, who was martyred in a
suicide mission to kill a Greek-Syrian gen-
eral, grew in popularity.
Not coincidentally, Elazar is now the
name of a West Bank settlement named in
honor of the young Maccabee. 
Rabbi Jacob Schacter, senior scholar at
Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish
Future, suspects attitudes toward the Mac-
cabees again may be changing.
“In post-Zionism, there’s been some
cooling of ardor for the Maccabees,”
Schacter said. “I suspect that if the Zionist
narrative is under scrutiny, then I believe
that one’s attitude toward the legacy of the
Maccabees would be contingent upon the
Whichever way one sees the Macca-
bees, it is hard to imagine what the Jewish
people would have been like without
them, or whether they would have sur-
vived at all, NYU’s Rubenstein suggested.
“Perhaps Judaism would have turned
out more like Christianity without the
Maccabees,” Rubenstein said. “The other
cultures of the region, such as the Edomim
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Maccabees still making news
NEW  YORK  (JTA) — Some 2,200
years after the Maccabees’ revolt, histo-
rians and archaeologists are uncovering
new information about their era.
This year’s biggest discovery is a cor-
respondence between Seleukes IV, whose
brother and heir was Antiochus IV
Epiphanes of the Hanukkah story, and
one of Seleukes’ chiefs in Judea found on
parts of an ancient stele.
Professor Dov Gera of Ben-Gurion
University, who studied the stone’s inscrip-
tion, said it confirms the account by the
Jewish historian Josephus regarding the
tightening grip of the Greek-Syrian empire
over its subjects’ religious practices.
“[The text reveals] Seleukes appointed
one of the members of his court as an
official to oversee worship in the area and
equate religious services throughout the
empire,” Gera said. “Such an appoint-
ment might have been considered by the
Jews to be offensive.”
In the book of Maccabees II, Josephus
tells the story of a Greek-Syrian official
in a similar position who tries to rob the
Temple of its gold. The stele is believed
to date from 178 BCE, just over a decade
before Judah Maccabee rededicated the
Temple in Jerusalem.
Assembling the stele and determining
its origin required some detective work.
Gera received three fragments of
unknown origin that surfaced on the antiq-
uities market. Upon inspection he saw that
they seemed to match the fragment of
another stone that was missing text.
“When I got the three broken tablets,
I saw it was part of another fragment that
was already published,” he said.
Gera connected the fragments and saw
that they matched. He concluded that the
fragments must have been broken off the
original stele, which was found in a cave in
Israel’s Beit Guvrin area by grave robbers.
“I hope that the rest of the stele will
be found because we are still missing the
first part,” he said.
— Gil Shefler
and the Nabateans, got assimilated into the
Roman world.
“Judaism was constantly being Hel-
lenized throughout the period, even
under the Maccabees. They adopted
Greek coins, names and customs. But is it
going to compromise your fidelity to the
Temple? That’s where they drew a line in
the sand.”
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Shh! A chef’s secret favorites for Hanukkah
Emily Moore JTNews Columnist
Don’t get me wrong.
I love my mother’s latkes.
She learned them from her
mother, a marvelous cook
who kept a kosher kitchen
in Brooklyn in the 1920s
and ’30s. She made her own
Shabbos wine using Concord
grapes from upstate New
York and won at poker every
Saturday night. I mean, my
grandmother’s latkes: How
much more authentic can you get? And
they are excellent: Potatoes and onions
grated through the smallest holes of the
hand grater, seasoned with onion tears
and skin of knuckles, fried in the same
pan every year for seven decades. Soft on
the inside and crispy on the edges, a little
greasy and wonderful re-heated in the
oven the next day.
That said, today I have a confession to
make: I also really love super crispy, long-
potato-string latkes, thin and crackly and
wafting a fresh fried potato scent. And
I love latkes made of luscious fall roots,
grated parsnips and celery root and carrots
and beets, madly colored with butternut
squash and laced with the foresty flavors of
chanterelle mushrooms, leeks, fennel and
pears. Since these are not as crispy, I like to
honor the memory of Judith, who, in the
second century B.C., lopped off the head
of the evil Assyrian general Holofernes
after plying him with cheese cakes and
wine, and serve these with very crisp fried
cheese “cookies,” simply made with grated
Parmesan.
The best accompaniments
for crazy quilt latkes such as
these are not necessarily the
traditional (and again, com-
pletely yummy) homemade
cinnamon-scented apple
sauces of my youth, but
more tart relishes and chut-
neys, sparkling with cran-
berries, pomegranate and
candied ginger. The sour
cream stays — it’s always
completely perfect with latkes. But if
you can find it, instead try my favorite,
quark (a lighter, German-style cultured
cheese made with buttermilk) and add a
new, tarter, lower-fat accompaniment to
your latkes.
Another dearly held memory treat
from my mom and childhood is of
Hanukkah sugar cookies, rolled thin, cut
into Hanukkah shapes and baked, fill-
ing the house with their characteristic
caramelly smell and frosted by kids with
messy blue-and-white icing and sprin-
kles. I wouldn’t trade the memory of
messing up the kitchen every year with
Hanukkah sugar cookies for anything, yet
I must admit that I have a more sophisti-
cated “chef’s” favorite Hanukkah cookie
to share, a delicate shortbread made with
cream cheese and ground nuts, decorated
before baking with a thin egg wash and
twinkling white and blue baking sugars.
So, please indulge my chef’s palate and
enjoy making these Hanukkah delights
this year!
Very Crispy Potato Latkes
2 lbs. russet or Yukon gold potatoes
1 medium onion
3 egg whites (you can use the yolks to make the
shortbread cookies)
3 to 6 Tbs. matzoh meal or all-purpose flour
2 tsp. kosher or sea salt
1 tsp. fresh cracked white or black peppercorns
Light flavored oil for frying (canola is good)
Peel and grate the potatoes through
the large holes of a box grater.
Toss into ice water (ice removed)
and swish around briefly to remove
the starch and firm them up. Drain,
spread on a large, clean dishtowel,
roll up the towel and press and
squeeze out as much moisture as
possible; the potato strings must
be very dry. Grate the onion on the
large holes of the grater and mix
with the potatoes.
Beat the egg whites until foamy, add
to the potatoes and stir in the flour
or matzoh meal and the salt and
pepper.
Heat 1-1/2” oil over medium heat until
shimmering on the surface and a few
strings of potato cook golden brown
in about a minute. Put 2 large table-
spoons of potatoes per latke into the
oil and press flat with the back of a
spatula. Let bubble and fry on one side
until deep golden brown, then turn
and cook until the same color on the
other side. The second side will cook
more quickly than the first because
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the latke has heated up inside during
frying. Drain well on absorbent towels
and serve right out of the pan. You can
freeze them on a cookie sheet, then
store in a Ziploc bag for several days.
Re-heat in a 400º oven.
Serve with applesauce and sour cream,
or with pears or quince, peeled, seed-
ed and sautéed with cinnamon and
vanilla.
Makes 10 to 12 latkes
Crazy Quilt Latkes
1/2 lb. each of your choice of: Parsnips, celery
root, yams, beets, butternut squash, carrots,
sweet potatoes and/or fennel (anise) bulb to
make 2 lbs.
For each 2 lbs. of vegetables:
1/2 large yellow onion
3 large green onions or 1 large leek, white and light
green parts only
1/2 lb fresh chanterelle, shiitake (remove the
stems) or portabella mushrooms
4 egg whites
1/4 cup to 1/3 cup all purpose flour or matzoh meal
2-1/2 tsp. kosher or sea salt
1 tsp. freshly cracked white or black peppercorns
Pure olive oil, light olive oil or canola oil for frying
Peel the root vegetables and halve and
core the fennel bulb (if using). Peel the
yellow onion, halve and wash the leek
well (if using), clean the green onions.
Clean the mushrooms and slice into
thin strips.
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Grate the root vegetables on the large
holes of a box grater, thinly slice the
fennel bulb and the leeks or green on-
ions, and grate the yellow onion. Mix all
together and toss in the flour or matzoh
meal. Beat the egg whites until foamy
and stir into the vegetable mixture and
season with the salt and pepper.
Heat 1-1/2” oil over medium heat until
shimmering on the surface and a few
strings of potato cook golden brown
in about a minute. Put 2 large table-
spoons of potatoes per latke into the
oil and press flat with the back of a
spatula. Let bubble and fry on one
side until deep golden brown, then
turn and cook until the same color
on the other side. Drain well on ab-
sorbent towels. You can freeze them
on a cookie sheet, then store in a
Ziploc bag for several days. Re-heat
in a 350º oven.
Serve with crisp Parmesan “cookies,”
sour cream or quark and pome-
granate-cranberry relish, arranged
on plates or platters to show off
their colors.
Makes about 12 large latkes
Crisp Parmesan “Cookies”
8 oz grated fresh Parmesan, Romano, Asiago or
any hard, aged grating cheese
Heat a non-stick pan over medium- Combine pomegranate juice, cran- 1 large egg beaten with
low heat. Sprinkle 1/2 oz. (about 2 berries, dates and anise seed in a 1 Tbs. milk
tablespoons) of cheese in an even 3” 2-quart non-aluminum saucepan. Blue and white crystal baking sugar for decorating
circle on the surface of the pan. Let Bring to a boil and let simmer for 30 Grind the almonds and powdered su-
the cheese melt and bubble briefly, minutes, adding 1/2 cup water after gar together in the bowl of a food pro-
then lift out carefully with a spatula 15 minutes. Add the honey, ginger, cessor until very finely ground. Set
and place on a cookie sheet covered mango or papaya and vanilla and aside. Cream the butter and cream
with paper continue cooking cheese together in the food proces-
toweling. until the mixture sor bowl until completely blended
Let cool and thickens to a thick and fluffy, stopping to scrape down
become firm syrup, stirring often the sides once or twice. Add the nut
and crisp. to prevent scorch- mixture, vanilla and salt and pulse
Repeat with ing. Cool com- to combine completely. Add the
the remain- pletely, stirring as flour and pulse, combining until just
ing cheese. the relish thickens. mixed. Scrape out of the bowl and
Voila! Lacy, Chill. Adjust flavor divide into 3 discs. Wrap each one
crisp cheese with lemon, lime in plastic wrap and chill for at least 2
cookies! or grapefruit juice hours or as long as 2 days.
Makes about and/or zest, or Roll out each disc until about 1/4”
12 3” crisps more pomegranate thick on a lightly floured counter.
juice as desired. Cut with Hanukkah cookie cutters
Cranberry Makes about 3-1/2 to make stars, dreidels, candles,
Pomegranate Seph Swain/Creative Commons cups etc. Place on a very lightly greased
Relish or parchment-lined cookie sheet,
Cream Cheese Almond Shortbread brush each with the egg-milk mix-
2 cups pure pomegranate juice (not syrup or Hanukkah Cookies ture and sprinkle with the blue and
pomegranate molasses) white decorating sugars in patterns
2 cups fresh cranberries 1/2 lb. butter or as sprinkles.
8 pitted dates, chopped 8 oz. cream cheese Bake at 325º until firm, set and very
1/2 cup honey 1 cup powdered sugar lightly golden, 10 to 12 minutes.
1/2 tsp. anise seed 3/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted 5 or 6 minutes at Cool on the cookie sheet or care-
1/4 cup candied ginger, chopped 350º fully remove to racks to cool com-
1/4 cup candied mango or papaya, sliced into 1 tsp. vanilla pletely. Makes about 2-1/2 dozen
strips (available in bulk at Central Market) 1/4 tsp. salt 2” cookies.
1 tsp. vanilla 1-3/4 cup all-purpose flour

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