New York Times Misspells Chanukah, Cites Challah, Brisket, Kugel As Holiday’s Foods

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The New York Times drew ridicule on social media for its Strands word search game, whose theme on Sunday was “Hannukah Foods.”

Social media users noted that Times style guide calls for spelling the Yom Tov as “Hanukkah.”

Some of the puzzle answers are Chanukah foods, such as “latkes” and “apple sauce,” about which there is a debate if it is indeed a good latke companion. But the Times also cited “challah,” “brisket” and “kugel” as Chanukah foods, although they aren’t associated with the Yom Tov.

“Not only did the New York Times games department misspell Hanukkah in today’s Strands game, some of the answers are not particularly associated with the holiday and are just commonly eaten Jewish foods which are actually associated with Shabbat,” wrote Rand Levin, executive director of Congregation Beth Sholom, a nearly 100-year-old shul in Lawrence, N.Y.

“Thanks for the stereotyping,” he added.

Elie Landau, general manager of the Museum of Broadway, wrote that “the ignorance of New York Times Games in today’s ‘Strands’—unable to distinguish between traditionally ‘Jewish’ foods and those specific to Chanukah—is astonishing. Akin to the local supermarket.”

“Indeed, seeing this stupidity, I was only surprised that one of the words wasn’t ‘matzoh,’” he wrote.

When someone responded about Chanukah being misspelled, Landau wrote that “I’ll forgive them that, as there are easily more than a half-dozen common spellings.”

“But three of their foods literally have nothing (zero, zip, bupkis) to do with the holiday,” hew rote. “And they managed to omit the one other (besides latkes) that does (jelly donuts or ‘sufganiyot’).” JNS

{Matzav.com}

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  1. Is that how far the NYT secular Jewish editors have gone from yidishkeit? They don’t even know the foods we eat on Shabbos?

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