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Dec. 18, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® May 1–xx, 2016 Menorah’s ‘largest’ A LATKE LOVE title lost Fest honors BY COLIN MIXSON potato pancake It is the world’s largest menorah no more-a! A rabbinical court has for- BY JULIANNE CUBA bidden a Park Slope rabbi from These aren’t your bubbe’s latkes! promoting the massive menorah A collection of chefs will rad- that has spread Hanukkah cheer ically redesign the humble po- at Grand Army Plaza since 1984 tato pancake next week at the as the world’s largest, decreeing eighth annual Latke Festival, instead that the title belongs to a swapping out traditional top- colossal candelabra on the god- pings of sour cream or apple- less island of Manhattan. sauce for short rib and oxtail The Chabad-Lubavitch court’s jelly. Foodies will fl ock to the Dec. 1 decision, fi rst reported by Brooklyn Museum on Dec. 19 to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, sample unique twists on the Ha- ends a years-long feud between nukkah staple made from pota- Rabbi Shimon Hecht and Crown toes fried in oil. The festival is a Heights Rabbi Shmuel Butman tasty way to bring gentiles and — the man behind the competing the chosen people together for candleholder in Central Park — an early celebration of the holi- but the losing side says they aren’t day of lights, said the festival’s kvetching about the results. founder. “We’re going to follow the “December is so fi lled with court’s decision,” said Rabbi holidays and really dominated Moshe Hecht, Shimon Hecht’s by Christmas, which is wonder- son. “It is what it is.” ful, but I always say that I’m a Both Hecht’s and Butman’s me- Hanukkah girl. There’s really norahs sit on a 32-foot base — the this void around Hanukkah-re- maximum size permitted under lated celebration and a latke is Jewish law — but the Big Apple so delicious, I mean who doesn’t version boasts signifi cantly more HIS FRIED AND JOY: Chef Saul Bolton, of the Norm restaurant in the Brooklyn Museum, will cook up an oxtail-topped love fried potato?” said Liz Neu- Continued on page 12 latke for the festival on Dec. 19. Photo by Caleb Caldwell Continued on page 16 Pols: Fix bridge typo Mummies and daddies BY CAROLINE SPIVACK — which has been missing AND MAX JAEGER a Z since it opened in 1964, BY ALEXANDRA SIMON — by becoming men! “A whole concept strange and The Metropolitan Trans- thanks to a petition started For this afterlife, it’s no Woman’s Afterlife: Gender sexist, but the exhibit dem- portation Authority must by a Dyker Heights man, lo- girls allowed! Transformation in Ancient onstrates how much beliefs fi x a 50-year-old typo, ac- cal pols wrote in a Dec. 7 let- The ancient Egyptians Egypt,” opening Dec. 15, can change, said its curator. cording to area pols. ter to agency chief Thomas Museum Brooklyn believed that only dudes details the post-mortem rit- “I know it’s weird but The agency should cor- Prendergast. GENDER ASSIGNMENT: This could live on after death, ual that temporarily trans- not everybody thinks the rect its spelling of the Ver- “It is our opinion, along ancient Egyptian statue was but according to a new ex- formed women into men so way we think — there’s razano-Narrows Bridge — with the almost 1,000 sig- painted red to signify it’s a hibit at the Brooklyn Mu- they could be reborn in the more than one way to think named for Italian explorer natories, that as we move man, regardless of its other seum, some women man- next world. about things and we are Giovanni da Verrazzano Continued on page 5 attributes. aged to slip into the afterlife Modern minds fi nd the Continued on page 8
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