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Step aside, Christmas and New Year’s. Starting tomorrow and for the next eight days, there’s a big kid in town who’s ready to revel in his blue-colored spotlight. And based upon the crazy, sexy, and delicious Hanukkah events we’ve gathered for this weekly column, the “Festival of Lights” might as well be called the “Festival of Bites,” or the “Festival of Half-Naked Jewish Women” – depending on how you look at it. So go, eat latkes and jelly doughnuts, listen to a comedian kvetch, and oogle at some Hanukkah hotties. That’s the spirit.

It's the beginning of December, which means now marks the time we transform into mushy, gushy, "oh my gosh! twinkling lights! I like Christmas cookies!" New Yorkers. And as we metamorphosize, it's best we stick with like-minded events and like-minded people. So we've gathered this weekend's top holiday events in NYC. Eat, drink, watch santa slasher movies, watch competitive jump-ropers - but please, make sure you're your cynical, picky, self-deprecating self next year. No one likes an overtly emotional and sensitive New Yorker.