Craving latkes? Want to make a gingerbread house? We got you covered with this list of holiday pop-ups along with a slew of restaurant openings.

From outdoor services to online cooking lessons, D.C.’s religious communities are trying to connect to the traditions and meaning of the holiday season while adhering to public health guidelines.

This championship has some key rule changes that “won’t leave everything up to the spin of the dreidel.”

However you choose to celebrate, from outdoor spectaculars to boozy drinks, 2016 is shaping up to be nothing less than eight crazy nights for Hanukkah in DC.

It’s a miracle—eight nights of fried foods await.

From old school latkes to updated versions.

Located on the Ellipse in front of the White House, the Menorah will be lit at 4 p.m.

An alternative Jewish Christmas Eve party is threatening to give the Matzo Ball a run for its money this year.

Omnipresent Christmas music assaults one’s ears throughout the month of December. If it does not push you over the edge, you may be the sort of person who actually wants to hear a Christmas concert at this time of the year. Our picks for the season’s most interesting holiday concerts follow, mostly free of Christmas chestnuts: much more of the best of the rest after the jump.

Former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn packed the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah, for a lesson in latkes. At Latke Mania, the reality TV personality turned Good Stuff Eatery burger slinger earned laughs lighting a menorah with a butane torch, struggling through candle lighting prayers he said he stayed up all night learning, and bantering with his sous chef for the evening—his mom. It was clear to see…