Kendall Crawford
speaker
10 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 22 Dec
Kendall Crawford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More than a decade ago, Neil Hoffman's son asked him for an elf on a shelf.
The only problem, the Jewish family didn't celebrate Christmas.
He turned that joke into a popular Hanukkah toy and a tool to teach kids the meaning behind the Jewish festival of lights.
The Mench on a Bench comes with a storybook that teaches kids how to be a mench, the Yiddish word for a good and honorable person.
Hoffman says it's a way to lighten the holiday with more than just a menorah.
Many families agree he sold over a half a million of his Hanukkah heroes.
For NPR News, I'm Kendall Crawford in Cincinnati.
And I'm Doah Lee Saikautel, NPR News in New York City.
And I kind of made this joke and said, no man, you can have a mensch on a bench.
We call it putting the phonica into Hanukkah.
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