Celebrating Chanukah: Culture

• Chanukah Art Theme by Jewish Deaf Artists

This video explores Jewish Deaf Artists who have incorporated Chanukah themes in their artwork and share what has been found so far:

Dan McClintock
Designed and sold a Chanukah card in 1996.
(Non-Jewish)

Our Way/NCSY
Sold Chanukah cards in the 1980’s
Designed by Mattice Aaronson.
(Hearing)

Bill Parker
Made stained paper glass menorah

Uzi Buzgalo of Israel
Painted for Bernard Bragg “The Man and His Muse” with a menorah in it.
Completed in 2011.
First and only piece he did with Menorah to date!

Ellen Mansfield
Designed and sold Jewish De’Via 2018 Calendar
Chanukah theme appears on front cover, February, July, October, November and December.

Ellen Mansfield
Designed ceramic Menorah with Dreidel.
She is currently creating a 8 days of Jewish De’Via painting for Chanukah.
Her website is www.ellenmansfield.com

If you know of other Jewish Deaf Artists that has made Chanukah theme artwork, please share with us. Happy Chanukah! Sharon Ann Dror

• Playing the Dreidel Game

Dreidel is a game played at Chanukah. Dreidel is a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side.

Each letter represents:
Nun – get nothing
Shin – put in pot
Gimel – get all
Hay – get half

The complete phrase is “A great miracle happened there”.

We use Chocolate coins – Gelts instead of real coins.

Thanks to Kenneth S. Rothschild for making this video. He captured a perfect shot with the Dreidel giving Sharon all four Hebrew letters after many takes! A great ending 🙂

Gluten Free Latkes & Raw Apple Sauce

Video shows how to make gluten free potato latkes and apple sauce

POTATO LATKES
2 eggs
2 cloves of garlic minced
6 russet potatoes
6 tablespoons arrowroot flour/starch (gluten free, no white and wheat processed)
2 medium onions – grated or chopped
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoon fine sea salt

PREPARATION
Wash potatoes with water and use vegetable scrub on potatoes – keep skin for fiber and nutrition benefits after grating potatoes in the food processor or grater – put in bowl of cold water to help bring out some of the starch and use strainer to squeeze out all liquid to make patties

Frying pan – pour either avocado oil or extra virgin olive oil and have it hot ready before putting the latkes in it

Let’s make some raw apple sauce in the blender – no cooking involved.

I use green apples because it has the lowest sugar of all the apples and I keep the skin on for fiber and nutrition benefits. Use apple corer to remove the core in the middle.

4 apples
1 teaspoon fresh lemon squeezed juice
1 teaspoon cinnamon or 3 drops of doTERRA cinnamon bark essential oil
1 tablespoon honey
Vitamix blender

I hope you enjoyed the cooking show and learned some new tips. Please share with us your results.

Have a wonderful and Happy Chanukah!

Source: Sharon Ann Dror

Published On: 15 Kislev 5781 (15 Kislev 5781 (December 1, 2020))