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Sun Dec 29, 2019, 03:27 PM Dec 2019

Just watched an interesting program about Hanukkah on PBS

Seems it is from last year.

Lainie Kazan And William Shatner to Share Hanukkah Memories On PBS

One of the people interviewed was Author Abigail Pogrebin (My Jewish Year), daughter of Ms. Magazine founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin, notes that Hanukkah is an "accessible" holiday compared with other Jewish rituals that may seem daunting, relating how her mother's Hanukkah parties were marked by a tap-dancing Gloria Steinem, lectures from other noted journalists, and her siblings' holiday parody songs along the lines of "Don't Cry for Me, Antiochus." And continued with: the truth is, I burned the latkes..

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Lainie-Kazan-And-William-Shatner-to-Share-Hanukkah-Memories-On-PBS-20181114

Cannot find a direct link to the program itself. An hour long.


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Just watched an interesting program about Hanukkah on PBS (Original Post) question everything Dec 2019 OP
Thanks, I'll search for program on PBS. RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2019 #1
That is one of the DVDs my husband and I bought for my family. Behind the Aegis Dec 2019 #2
Lainie Kazan And William Shatner to Share Hanukkah Memories On PBS. elleng Dec 2019 #3

Behind the Aegis

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2. That is one of the DVDs my husband and I bought for my family.
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 04:02 PM
Dec 2019

It was a Chanukkah gift this year to my parents and three brothers. There is also one on Passover.

elleng

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3. Lainie Kazan And William Shatner to Share Hanukkah Memories On PBS.
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 04:03 PM
Dec 2019

Nov. 14, 2018

'Tony Award nominee Lainie Kazan and Emmy Award winner William Shatner, whose Broadway stage careers have spanned six decades, reveal personal stories of their Jewish upbringing in the new PBS special Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights. The program airs nationwide on PBS stations in the week leading up to and through the holiday (check local listings) and in the New York metropolitan area on PBS as follows: on WLIW/21 on Sunday, November 25 at 7:30 pm (check wliw.org for additional airings) and on the first and last nights of Hanukkah on Thirteen -- Sunday, December 2 at 2:30 pm and Sunday, December 9 at 8 pm. . .

Along with Kazan and Shatner, Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights features Jewish families from a variety of backgrounds including rabbis, scholars of Jewish history, authors, artists sharing their personal Hanukkah experience, along with archival film and images - each illuminating the holiday like the eight candles lit each night on the traditional menorah through the centuries. Throughout the program, a brother and sister, children on the cusp of their Jewish adulthood, learn on-screen how to make potato latkes (pancakes) from their bubbe (grandmother) and ask questions about the meaning of the holiday to their rabbi, reinforcing the role of Hanukkah as a powerful connection between generations past and future and exploring its complicated history.'>>>


https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Lainie-Kazan-And-William-Shatner-to-Share-Hanukkah-Memories-On-PBS-20181114

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