Eight Crazy Nights: Celebrating Chanukah In The City

Eight Crazy Nights” will be a daily feature written by some of the Jewish writers at NYU Local (also known as NYJew Local). It will last the duration of Chanukah.
If you’re still fascinated by our comprehensive retelling of Chanukah story, or if you just happen to be Jewish, the holiday begins tonight at sunday and lasts until December 9. Jewish or Gentile, celebrate the miracle of the Eternal Flame at these various events around the city:
Lighting of the World’s Largest Menorah @ 59th St. & 5th Ave. — Tonight, 5:30 PM (through Dec. 9) — Where else would the World’s Largest Menorah be? The menorah will be lit every night in Midtown every night, right before you spend the rest of the holiday in Bobst.
HillelNYU Hannukah.Toga recommended! When they say “drinking games,” we’re guessing that they mean water or grape juice. Still, you may as well put that bedsheet to another use and make streams of Animal House references.
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Eight Crazy Nights: Celebrating Chanukah In The City

When Does Hanukkah Start: Happy Hanukkah To Celebrities Celebrating Hanukkah 2010!

We’d like to wish a very Happy Hanukkah to everyone who is celebrating Hanukkah 2010…including many celebrity parents! When does Hanukkah start?
Hanukkah 2010 officially starts tonight at sundown. This is the earliest that the Hanukkah calendar has started in eight years. When Hanukkah 2010 , also know as Chanukah 2010, starts tonight, it kicks off the first of an eight-night Jewish Festival of Lights.

The following celebrities will be celebrating Hanukkah 2010, so we’d like to send Happy Hanukkah wishes their way!

Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, David Arquette, Brooke Burke, Mayim Bialik, Soleil Moon Frye, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Hudson, and Gwyneth Paltrow, to name a few.
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When Does Hanukkah Start: Happy Hanukkah To Celebrities Celebrating Hanukkah 2010!

Hanukkah 2010: Which Celebrities Are Kindling the Lights?

 Adam Sandler told us in the Hanukkah Song that "so many Jews are in showbiz," but in the rush of Christmas spirit, it can be easy to forget the lowly Festival of Lights, which actually is not that big of a deal in terms of Jewish holidays, but has become so over the years to compete with the ever-present glow of the Christmas season.

Because nothing says holidays like spending way too much money on useless items, going into debt and stressing ourselves out -- and who does that better than Hollywood? -- here are just a few celebrities who will be lighting up the menorah tonight, playing a few rounds of dreidel and wolfing some latkes (potato pancakes):
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Hanukkah 2010: Which Celebrities Are Kindling the Lights?

♪♫ Happy Hanukkah songs fight back

Hanukkah, the eight-day festival of lights, begins Wednesday after sundown. As coffee shops and shopping malls pump our aural pipes full of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Jewish Americans are once more faced with a winter of musical despair: Where is the Hanukkah music?

Hasidic reggae musician Matisyahu offers up a theory over at NPR: Jewish American singer-songwriters have been too busy writing Christmas carols:

    "White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Silver Bells" and "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting)" were all written by Jews. Both Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand have their own Christmas albums. The No. 1 bestselling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G.
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♪♫ Happy Hanukkah songs fight back