{"id":10364,"date":"2023-12-08T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:27:58","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-hanukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/12\/08\/holidays-in-the-movies-hanukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies:  Hanukkah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"10788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/12\/08\/holidays-in-the-movies-hanukkah\/lambchop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,654\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lambchop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-306x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-459x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-459x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10788\" style=\"width:148px;height:193px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-459x600.jpg 459w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-306x400.jpg 306w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop-110x144.jpg 110w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lambchop.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Weird that we haven&#8217;t already covered Hanukkah in our movie watching.  This year we will be taking some first steps toward addressing this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0243375\/\">Lamb Chop&#8217;s Special Chanukah<\/a> (1995) : I may have been born just a little too late for lamb chop, but it has the comforting television special feel that I grew up with.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Rugrats_Chanukah\">Rugrats Chanukah episode<\/a> (1996 season 4 episode 1): telling the story of Chanukah through the minds of the Rugrats characters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2562146\/\">Hanukkah<\/a> (2019) :  a horror movie unseen by us so far, we shall see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird that we haven&#8217;t already covered Hanukkah in our movie watching. This year we will be taking some first steps toward addressing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290,21],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10364,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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