Evelyn Kanter’s NYC Guidebook | NYC is a festival of lights this holiday weekend, because both the Hanukkah menorah and the Christmas tree are sparkling brightly all over town. Enjoy these Hanukkah events and performances this weekend – Satuurday, December 24th – Join Jewish comedians Ray Ellin, Lenny Marcus, MODI, Dan Naturman as they take humorous shots at that [...] Celebrate Hanukkah with the sounds of Yiddish music and theater presented by The National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene, at the Winter Garden atrium of the World Financial Center. Performers include Zalmen Mlotek, Annette Ezekiel, Alicia Jo Rabins of the Klezmer group Golem, Daniella Rabbani, Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch, and other special guests, at this family friendly event. [...] Learn how to prepare Hanukkah’s most popular treats from scratch, including traditional latkes (potato pancakes), and sweet, airy sufganiot, which are traditional yeast doughnuts with honey and orange rind, filled with raspberry jam or vanilla custard. Yum. This is a hands-on demonstration and cooking class at the Bowery Culinary Center, inside the Wholefoods store [...] Whether you spell it Hanukkah or Chanukah, the week-long Festival of Lights still begins at sundown on Friday, December 11th. Take the kids to one of these family-oriented festivities on Saturday, December 12th: The 14th Street Y has a free storytelling afternoon of Hanukkah stories that they are calling “Storatelling”. The event is 2 p.m. to [...] | |