ToI’s weekly deep dive: Modern Maccabees * Mexican latkes spice up Hanukkah * Rare 2nd Temple menorah * Horovitz on Sa’ar power * 30,000 feet ab ove virus-stricken planet

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, December 13, 2020 On show [Modern Maccabees: UK exhibit highlights Jews’ overlooked resistance to the Nazis]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library from December 8 reveals often underestimate rescue efforts and armed uprisings, as Jews fought back against their persecutors]( Latke recipe inside [TV chef brings Mexican latkes and jalapeno matzah ball soup north of border]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Pati Jinich boasts a rich culinary heritage from grandparents who fled to Mexico after the Holocaust, and uses it to educate Americans — from the small screen to the White House]( [Author interview / ‘I am Anne Frank’ demystifies hero to make Holocaust accessible to young readers]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Eat your way through the kitchens and forests of the Western Galilee]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Jerusalem’s Kadosh sufganiyot: Filled, fried, famed and now in print]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Archaeology [Rare Second Temple menorah drawing from biblical Maccabean site brought to light]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Hitherto unpublished 2,000-year-old engraved menorah, forgotten in archives for 40 years, shores up hypothesis that ancient Michmas was a priestly settlement, study says]( [Israel travels / Relics of a rebellion: A Hannukah visit to the home of the Maccabees]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Times of Israel Podcast / LISTEN: Filmmaker takes the Bible into ‘The Wilderness’ in new 10-part series]( By [TOI staff]( [Archaeology / 2,700 years ago, tiny clay piece sealed deal for Bible’s King Jeroboam II]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( Analysis [Raphael Ahren]( [A rich Jewish past, and present: Why Israel’s deal with Morocco is so resonant]( [Unlike other longtime and fresh peace partners of Israel, Morocco has an ongoing connection to the Jewish people, and many Israelis will be rushing for a direct flight ‘home’]( [‘We’ve waited so long for today’: Moroccan Israelis fete normalization agreement]( By [TOI staff]( [Larry Luxner]( [Kingdom of Bhutan: Israel’s new friend in the Himalayas?]( [UAE, Bahrain envoys join virtual Hanukkah event at Israel’s embassy in US]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [Sa’ar power: Staving off election, troubling Netanyahu, paring the center-left?]( [Our latest would-be PM failed in trying to defeat Netanyahu from within Likud. Polls suggest he’ll have far more impact now he’s bolted. But there’s polls, and then there’s reality]( [Analysis / Bennett is Israel’s next PM. Or Sa’ar. Or maybe Netanyahu. For sure.]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Analysis / Sa’ar steps out of Netanyahu’s shadow, and will likely cost him the premiership]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [CRM]( From the blogs [On same-sex couples in the Orthodox Jewish community]( By [Benjamin Lau]( Analysis [Jacob Magid]( [Biden hopes to deprioritize Israel-Palestinian conflict but might not be able to]( [Analysts say issue likely to find its way onto international stage, even though president-elect would prefer to sideline it in order to focus on Iran nuclear deal reentry]( [Martin Sherman]( [John Brennan disputes Israel’s right to defend itself. There’s a word for that.]( [Kenneth S. Stern]( [Steering the Biden administration wrong on anti-Semitism]( Environment [Humans make so much ‘stuff’ it now outweighs life on Earth – Israeli research]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Startup Israel [‘Ma koreh?’ Dubaians cheerfully pick up Hebrew as Israelis see what’s up in UAE]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [At the mall, Rafi and Nissim sip coffee and shop, while a Syria-born salesman at Sephora initially flinches but then decides his Israeli customers are in fact very nice]( [Israeli firms raise record amount of capital in 2020 despite pandemic downturn]( By [Luke Tress]( [‘Corona,’ ‘Zoom’ and pancakes: Israel’s top trending Google searches in 2020]( By [Luke Tress]( [Stores start marking Israeli produce, as survey says buyers prefer locally grown]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Boy oh boy [Boy George launches new single, written with Israeli reality star]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Eighties pop star joins forces with Asaf Goren, writing ‘Rainbow in the Dark’]( [In first, female retired general tapped for next military ombudsman]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( First Person [30,000 feet above virus-stricken planet, a terrifying view of the way we are now]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [The FlyDubai plane to the UAE was packed, and I was paranoid: Forget terrorism or crashing, it was a simple cough that now had me wondering if we can ever go home again]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved