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This year, celebrate Hanukkah with AJC’s People of the Pod! Expand your latke and sufganiyot recipes with Eitan Bernath, hear tunes for the festival of lights from Nissim Black and Six13, and be inspired with stories from host Manya Brachear Pashman about celebrating the holiday.

This Hanukkah, we hear from Rabbi Yael Buechler, a writer, educator, entrepreneur, and Hanukkah merch maven. She’s also a Hanukkah historian who has tracked how the festival of lights helped reinvent Jewish culture in America and how it became a gift-giving occasion alongside Christmas. Rabbi Beuchler joins us to discuss how American Jews can take advantage of the marketplace to express their Jewish pride authentically during the Hanukkah season.

Here are five big Jewish stories that drew our audiences’ attention and spurred action by and on behalf of the Jewish people.

AJC applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for overwhelmingly passing, 400- 25, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.