âLove, Lights, Hanukkah!â: Mia Kirshner Stars in Hallmarkâs Nod to the Festival of Lights
Among the 40 new holiday movies that will premiere on Hallmark Channel this season, thereâs just one that highlights Jewish tradition. Premiering Dec. 12, âLove, Lights, Hanukkah!â stars Mia Kirshner as a chef and restaurateur who was adopted as a baby and discovers via an ancestry search that sheâs Jewish. In short order, she meets her new family, the Bermansâhalf siblings Scott and Becky and her husband and daughters, and the mother (Marilu Henner) who gave her up for adoption. Over the next eight days, she learns about Hanukkahâand begins a romance with a menschy food critic (played by Kirshnerâs fellow MOT Ben Savage).