Are you behind on your Hanukkah reading?  Take a look at these hot Hanukkah links.

• Hanukkah: A Guide for the Perplexed [Tablet]
• Gelt without guilt: eight ways to give back this Hanukkah. [Oy!Chicago]
• Nancy Goodman's tale of Hanukkah in the Diaspora. [Lilith Blog]
• My Jewish Learning's the Adventures of Todd and God show you how to light the menorah. [MyJewishLearning]
• G-dCast, an animated re-telling of the Torah, tells the Hanukkah story. [Women's Lens]
• David Brooks discusses the not-so-happy parts of the Hanukkah story. [NYTimes]
• More "how-to Hanukkah" videos.  (I didn't realize there was so much confusion!) [My Urban Kvetch]
• Don't fear the fryer.  Recipes for tasty fried treats for Hanukkah. [Oy!Chicago]
• More Hanukkah recipes. [TCJewfolk]
• Mark Stauber and Raffi Holzer and the miracle of the wind-powered menorah [MyJewishLearning]
• Marjorie Ingall draws out the real costs of Hanukkah this year. [Tablet]
• Is the miracle of the oil really such a miracle? [Yo Yenta]
• Will you be making latkes, or jelly donuts? [MyJewishLearning]
• A thoughtful piece on Hanukkah songs, and why they are never as good as Christmas carols. [New Voices]
• Advice for Christians: how to NOT insult your Jewish friends during the holiday season. [The New Yorker]

Other interesting links not related to Hanukkah:

• Appropriations bill ends abstinence-only funding. Now it just needs Obama's signature to become law. [RH Reality Check]
• Legal protection for trangender employees in New York? [Gothamist]
• D.C. Council approves same-sex marriage bill. [Washington Post]
• "Red hot mamma" Sophie Tucker is competing against Johnny Depp for a Grammy?  What? [Marketwire]
• A blogger named James Chartrand revealed that she was actually a woman using a male pen name because (surprise!) she made more money as a man than a woman!  [Feministe] [Jezebel]
• Renee Ghert-Zand, a self-described "purger," discusses the possessions that have held meaning for her and connected her to a Jewish identity. [Truth, Praise & Help]