After the piousness of the Jewish High Holidays has passed, Hanukkah rolls in with jelly-filled sufganiyot, chocolate gelt, and menorah lightings celebrating the triumph of the Maccabees and a very miraculous bit of oil. The holiday runs from December 10-18 this year, and there are plenty of ways to celebrate safely in the Northwest, including several drive-in menorah lightings in Seattle and a virtual one Past Event Like List in Portland, as well as food and drink specials for takeout.
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DRIVE-IN EVENTS
Bainbridge Island
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Residents of Bainbridge can pick up holiday gift bags with kid-friendly crafts and treats before settling in for a drive-in menorah lighting.
Winslow Green, Bainbridge Island (Thurs Dec 10)
Capitol Hill
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Take in a grand menorah lighting and individually wrapped treats in the safety of your car in the parking lot of the Seattle Hebrew Academy. Children will get gifts, too.
Seattle Hebrew Academy, Capitol Hill (Thurs Dec 10)
Issaquah
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Join a vehicle procession along Chabad of the Central Cascades' Issaquah menorah locations (route provided with RSVP). Passengers will receive swag bags with Hanukkah treats.
Venue provided with RSVP, Issaquah (Sun Dec 13)
Kirkland
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Chabad of Kirkland's drive-in menorah lighting will be bolstered by an LED light show, individually wrapped sufganiyot, and swag bags.
Jordan River Moving & Storage, Kirkland (Sun Dec 13)
Lynnwood
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Chabad Center of Snohomish County (aka ScoCo) will have a five-foot ice menorah (courtesy of Cascade Sculptures) set up at this drive-through lighting, where they also promise a meet-and-greet with Judah Maccabee reincarnate, Hanukkah doughnuts and treats, and menorah kits.
Lynnwood City Hall (Sun Dec 13)
Phinney
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Savor jelly-filled, individually wrapped sufganiyah from your car while Chabad of Northwest Seattle lights up an extra-large menorah.
Phinney Neighborhood Association (Sun Dec 13)
Renton
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Head to Renton Tech's P2 parking lot for a giant drive-in menorah lighting, a gelt drop (courtesy of the Renton Fire Department), music, pre-packaged treats, and more socially distanced fun.
Renton Technical College (Sun Dec 13)
Shoreline
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Save your car a spot at Chabad of Shoreline's drive-in Hanukkah experience, where you'll witness a grand menorah lighting and family-friendly entertainment over refreshments brought to your window.
Shoreline Stadium (Sun Dec 13)
TAKE-HOME BOXES
The Chanukah Party Box
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Preorder and pick up your very own Hanukkah party box complete with jelly doughnuts, latkes, a menorah, and dreidels and gelt, courtesy of Chabad of Downtown.
Block 41, Belltown (Thurs Dec 10)
Chanukah Party Toolbox
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Chabad of Northwest Seattle has your family Hanukkah party covered with a gift box packed with a latke recipe, an interactive Hanukkah story, Dreidel supplies, and more. Kits are free for pickup, but they're accepting donations.
8420 Dayton Ave N, Greenwood (Wed Dec 9)
VIRTUAL EVENTS
DECEMBER 10
Chanukah Together at Home
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Fire up your menorah on the first night of Hanukkah with Chabad Northwest of Seattle and special guest ventriloquist Chuck Field.
Grand Menorah Lighting - Virtual Edition
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Light the first candle on your menorah as Rabbi Rivkin lights an even bigger one in Marina Park at this Chabad of Kirkland livestream.
DECEMBER 10-17
Z3 2020: Visions Of A Shared Future
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Join Stroum Jewish Community Center each night of Hanukkah for video conversations, interviews, and other inspiring content from leaders from across the Jewish world.
DECEMBER 11
Jconnect Hanukkah Shabbat
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Join Jconnect Seattle for a virtual Shabbat with live music from local Jewish folk artist Chava Mirel. Don't feel like cooking dinner? They have free meal kits with oven-fried chicken cutlet (or kale and quinoa salad with roasted yams and seeds), latkes with applesauce, candied carrots, a mixed green salad, sugar cookies, challot, and grape juice for pickup from Hillel UW.
DECEMBER 11 & 18
Virtual SJCC: Tot Shabbat
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Stroum Jewish Community Center brings two Hanukkah Tot Shabbats (Shabbats for tots) with songs led by Chava Mirel.
DECEMBER 13
Hanukkah: The Warmth of Shared Light
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Take comfort in classic Hanukkah songs and discover some new ones in this Seattle Jewish Chorale concert.
Secular Jewish Circle Menorah Lighting
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Are you all up to speed on the story of Hanukkah? Test your knowledge of the holiday's history with virtual trivia hosted by Secular Jewish Circle. They'll also be sharing Hanukkah songs (and reading the story after the quiz). Have your menorah ready for a remote group lighting.
Virtual Hanukkah Cupcake Decorating with Trophy Cupcakes
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Stroum Jewish Community Center is teaming up with Trophy Cupcakes to bring you sufganiyot-inspired six-packs kits so you can make your own unique Hanukkah treats. Trophy's Jennifer Shea will lead an online decorating class once you have the goods.
DECEMBER 14
Virtual Chanukah Social
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Keep your loved ones safe at home while reaping the joys of a neighborhood Hanukkah party—the Chabad of Capitol Hill & the Central District's virtual event on the fifth night will include a bag of treats for pickup filled with warm latkes, a jelly doughnut, a beverage, and a dreidel and gelt.
DECEMBER 17
Share the Light! A Community Chanukah Celebration
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Prepare your menorah for the eighth night of Hanukkah and join Beth Huppin (Jewish Family Service), Rabbi Samuel Klein (Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle), and Chava Mirel for an online music and storytelling affair.
DECEMBER 19
Hanukkah Lights in the Big Sky
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When a brick is thrown at a menorah set in a child's window for Hanukkah, community leaders of all faiths come together to help spread a message of tolerance and peace. Tacoma Little Theatre's Hanukkah Lights in the Big Sky is based on true events in Billings, Montana in 1993 and is directed here by Melanie Gladstone.
FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS
Block 41
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Pick up everything you need for a Hanukkah party in a box
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, including latkes, jelly donuts, a menorah, dreidels, and other goodies, from CYP Seattle and Chabad of Downtown at Block 41.
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Dingfelder's Delicatessen
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Capitol Hill's Jewish deli will go all out for the Festival of Lights with a box that contains a choice of brisket, smoked salmon, or roasted lemon garlic herb kosher chicken, with latkes, soup, two side dishes, a dreidel, gelt, and an optional bottle of red or white wine. They'll also have classic latkes available by the dozen, with options for variations like gluten-free, beet and turnip, and zucchini and squash and your choice of two side dishes, such as sour cream, Honeycrisp applesauce, or caramelized onion mushroom compote. Side dishes, soup, and desserts are also available à la carte.
Capitol Hill
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Metropolitan Market
The upscale grocery chain will be offering latkes, Hanukkah themed-treats, candles, and home accessories at all of its locations.
Various locations
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Schmaltzy's Delicatessen
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Napkin Friends
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owner Jonathan Silverberg's Frelard deli puts a modern twist on a Hanukkah menu with pale ale-braised brisket, green bean casserole with challah breadcrumbs, roasted squash and spinach farro salad, latkes with applesauce and sour cream, and six mini sufganiyot. They'll also have "extra large delicious latkes" for sale separately, along with optional applesauce or sour cream. Preorders are required, and pickup is available only on the last two nights of Hanukkah, December 17-18.
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Terra Plata
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Chef Tamara Murphy is getting in on the festivities with a Hanukkah dinner for two, featuring matzo ball soup, braised beef brisket, honey roasted carrots, latkes with sour cream and applesauce, and house-made challah. Latkes with sour cream and apple compote and sufganiyot with strawberry jam are also available separately.
Capitol Hill
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The Tin Table
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The Century Ballroom's restaurant will prepare a Hanukkah bag stuffed with slow-braised beef brisket, potato latkes, honey-roasted carrots, challah, matzo ball soup, salad, gelt, and sufganiyot. Add on a bottle of mulled wine for extra coziness.
Capitol Hill
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Westman's Bagel and Coffee
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Chef Monica Dimas's bagel shop has you covered with a bagel and lox platter; a "whole latke love" package with quince jam, apple butter, dill sour cream, and a caviar cream cheese schmear; a smoked brisket box with onion jam and roasted harissa sweet potatoes; a cookie box with tahini thumbprint cookies, Maldon sea salt chocolate chip cookies, and two sprinkle cookies; and a box of Nutella and raspberry rugelach. There's also fennel and Maldon sea salt challah or za'atar challah. Pre-order by noon on Wednesday, December 9 for pickup from 12-2 pm on Friday, December 11.
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Vif
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The charming cafe and wine shop is celebrating Hanukkah for the first time this year with a fresh and comforting dinner for two that includes potato latkes with Pink Lady applesauce and creme fraiche; matzo ball soup with carrots, parsnips, leeks, and dill; grated carrot salad with pomegranate and mint; Persian-inspired lamb- and rice-stuffed cabbage rolls in spiced tomato sauce, and lemon poppyseed olive oil cake with honeyed labneh and Cara Cara oranges. Add on a blintz kit, bag of rugelach, apple kuchen, or gluten-free chocolate cake. Hanukkah-inspired wine pairings are also available at Vif and its sibling wine bar Petite Soif
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in Beacon Hill. The menu is available for pre-order until noon on Thursday, December 10th or until sold out, with pickup from 2-5 pm on Friday, December 11th.
Fremont
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Zylberschtein's
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This Jewish deli is serving up a locally sourced homestyle meal with a family recipe for brisket, applesauce, sour cream, and tsimmes (slow-roasted vegetables).
North Seattle
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SEATTLE & PORTLAND
DECEMBER 8
Star-Studded Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular
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The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will usher in the Jewish Festival of Lights with an evening of music and voices from around the world, including from actors Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart, Lady Bird) and Carol Kane (The Princess Bride) and legendary composer Itzhak Perlman.
Online
PORTLAND
EVENTS
DECEMBER 10
Pioneer Courthouse Square Menorah Lighting
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Watch Chabad of Oregon's grand menorah lighting live from Pioneer Courthouse Square without leaving your cozy spot on the couch.
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DECEMBER 10-17
Eight Nights of Lights
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The Mittleman Jewish Community Center will lead menorah lightings, blessings, and family-friendly activities, cooking demos, and more every night of Hanukkah on Zoom.
Online
DECEMBER 11
Hanukkah Pop-Up
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The small-batch bakery Baker & Spice will host a pop-up with sufganiyot and other Hanukkah treats.
Baker & Spice, Southwest
DECEMBER 12
Hanukah Variety Show Extravaganza!
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The Alberta Shul invites you to their online Hanukkah variety show with puppets.
Online
DECEMBER 13
Chanukah Drive-In
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Chabad of Northeast Portland will zazz up your fourth night of Hanukkah with a menorah lighting, a live musical performance from Dreidelman to the Maccabeats, a game show, and a movie screening, all on a big screen that you can enjoy from the safety of your car.
Lloyd Corporate Plaza (Northeast)
DECEMBER 15
Light Up Salem - Car Menorah Parade
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Hop in your car and join Chabad Center for Jewish Life for a Hanukkah parade around Southwest Portland.
Chabad Center for Jewish Life (Southwest)
FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS
Aviv
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The vegan Middle Eastern restaurant is celebrating with a menu that includes matzo ball soup, grilled cheese latkes, jackfruit brisket, challah bread, sufganiyot, and halvah candies. Pickup is available from December 10-18.
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Ben & Esther's
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Portland’s only vegetarian Jewish deli is selling Hanukkah baskets with a braided challah, two kugels, Hanukkah-themed cookies, sufganiyot, latkes with sour cream and applesauce, wooden dreidels, and a bag of chocolate gelt. Orders are due by noon on Monday, December 7, for pickup between 7 am and 3 pm on Thursday, December 10.
Northeast
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Order by noon on Monday, December 7
Bullard
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Get the first three nights of your Hanukkah celebration off to a good start with specials like 15-hour smoked brisket, potato latkes, babka cakes, and rugelach cookies. Pickup is available from December 10-12.
Southwest
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Elephants Delicatessen
For their Hanukkah menu, the deli is dishing up holiday beef brisket, marbella chicken, and salmon with cucumber dill, with sides like potato latkes, matzo ball soup, and Brussels sprouts with pears and pistachios. There's also crown challah, apple pie, and wine. Orders must be placed by phone or online by 3 pm, one day before desired curbside pickup or delivery time, and are available from December 10-17.
Northwest, Southwest
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Kachka
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Kachka will have the "Latke Party" spread of your dreams, with 12 crispy potato draniki, an assortment of toppings (roasted applesauce with toasted coriander, maitake mushroom gravy, smoky eggplant "caviar," truffled farmer's cheese spread, smetana, and chives), endive salad with creamy tarragon dressing, a dreidel game with instructions, and chocolate gelt. Feeling luxe? Add on house-cured seafood (smoked black cod, beet horseradish cured salmon, and steelhead roe) or an ounce of Tsar Nicoulai Estate White Sturgeon Caviar. Other offerings include slow-cooked house-smoked brisket, kits for making Kachka's apple konchiki (hot apple fritters with apple chunks and fresh farmer's cheese and rolled in thyme sugar) with lingonberry jam for serving, and loaves of braided challah bread. Pre-orders are available now for pickup anytime from December 10-18.
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Kenny & Zuke's
The Jewish deli is frying up latkes with house-made applesauce and sour cream available to go through the end of Hanukkah. They're also baking up chocolate-covered macaroons and prune-filled hamantaschen.
Southwest
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Leikam Brewing
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Ben Coleman writes, "Did you know that Portland has a genuine kosher brewery? We do! And the astutely named Leikam Brewing has a seasonal Winter IPA Maccabeer (with a little menorah on the can, naturally) on sale in supermarket beer aisles or via delivery straight from the brewery. Proceeds go to The House That Beer Built, a partnership between Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East and local craft breweries. They also have a beer called Eight Days a Week which might be a reference to Hanukkah and has a little hedgehog on the can."
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Mittleman Jewish Community Center
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The community center's cafe has a special shabbat takeout menu with latkes, challah, chicken or lentil soup, roasted vegetable platters, potato or noodle kugel, slow-cooked brisket, lemon thyme chicken, salmon cakes, chicken schnitzel, egg or tuna salad, turkey, pastrami, roast beef, and more.
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GIFTS
Blackthorn Mercantile
Order a Star of David bundt pan or some Hanukkah wrapping paper from Blackthorn's website, or visit them in person.
North
Peachtree Gifts
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The novelty store has a variety of Hanukkah gifts available in store, including candles, menorah socks, dreidel crayons, and a Hanukkah-sweater-wearing Ruth Bader Ginsburg mug.
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