The Stunt Show Manischewitz Chanuka House Contest 2014

all right here we are at manhattan day school in new york city it's time for the 2014 edition of who could build the best manishevits hanukkah house we're at mds i want to thank everybody here for welcoming us here today my name is nachom siegel we have miriam el wallach who of course is here with me and we are going to be presiding over this amazing contest as we have fantastic kids from mds and wonderful graduate chefs from the ckca who are going to be working together and trying to build the best mana chevits hanukkah house miriam mel wallach you all set for this big competition how are you boss all right everything good thank god already this is very exciting it means hanukkah is right around the corner have you checked out some of the decorations uh we have a lot of great decorations and i want to explain what's happening maybe we should go through the rules for everybody okay but i'm just telling you i claimed the rest of the tea biscuits oh anybody who wants to wrestle me to the floor for the rest of the tea biscuits brought along tea biscuits in a unique twist to this year's event that's it you get to bring along your own edible props is that how we put it we or decorations all right food decorations that would also work all right here's how here's what's happening uh and i think we should really start the clock on this competition really soon right we should get it going here's how it's going to happen everybody behind me is either a chef or a student and we've paired up these teams and together they're going to try and work very hard to build the best looking hanukkah house now there's only one person in this room that has a really tough immense challenge you know who that is right not me it's not you thank god it's somebody who's going to be uh probably uh praised by some and scrutinized by others our official judge who is going to be here today from matashevits and is going to be responsible for choosing one winner of this competition a very tough position to be in you agree i do that is a tough position we'll meet that judge coming up later on all right we have four stations behind us you see everybody stations one two three and four and i will introduce the contestants and then we'll start the clock and explain exactly what's going on everybody here a graduate chef of the ckca uh or a student here at manhattan day school at the uh and help me out here danny at at uh table number one we have uh chef malka hershkowicz am i right chef malcolm herschko it's a table number one paired with jeremiah schwartz round of applause for table number one please at number two station number two we have chef deborah benelli teamed up with jem hannan let's have a nice round of applause for station number two this is getting intense isn't it uh we move over to station number three and we have chef menachem redder chef menachem redder and andy samuels they're together at table number three they're raring to go to build their chanukah house from manichevits and at table number four we have chef marlene lundy and chevy epstein a round of applause for everybody at table number four all right do they look ready do these eight participants look like they've got their game face on they do have their game faces on and they've also i mentioned before off camera that there seems to have been some trash talking already no yeah that that sounds dangerous four jews in a room there's gonna be trash talking there you go i think we're ready to start uh we have gavriel siegel on the timer we're gonna give everybody 40 minutes to build the hanukkah house and we will continue to keep a close eye on everything that's going on here obviously we'll speak to our friends from manishevits get a word in from our friends at manhattan day school and we'll get a word in about the ckca and their incredible work in brooklyn new york and beyond is everybody ready here we go open up your manuscenuka house and start putting it together whoever builds the nicest one including using your own edible props your own decorations will be declared the winner here today and we'll walk away with the grand prize great prizes by the way today yes and we should just make sure to review that everyone brought in every chef was allowed to bring in five of his or her own specific ingredients or gramble um yes or individualized ingredients to with which to decorate the houses and one decorating tool okay so everybody's allowed to bring one decorating tool a change from last year's competition and another change another change is that it seems so far that all the houses are intact i can't believe so shout out to aaron gordon who um was a little bit putting his house together like humpty dumpty but and i'm going to give a nice uh shout out to everybody at mds who obviously have a very good receiving department excellent because nothing got none of the none of the amount of chevits house uh cookies or crackers are are cracked they're in fact in intact all right so the hanukkah house from manushevitz is a vanilla cookie it's a vanilla cookie decorating kit you see that here it's a decorating kick that is available in your stores it's all over the place it's available nationwide obviously if you head to the web you'll find it in many different locations including the website and this hanukkah house if you love vanilla cookies boy you're in good shape you're ready for something really delicious it includes whoa it includes listen to this four icing colors sprinkles mini beads a six point star and how important that is for hanukkah uh menorah and mazouza sugar decorations sanding sugar and all the instructions of how to do it are on the back of the box how much sanding sugar do you guys have at the seagull residence a lot oh do we have a lot of colors i'm sure i wake up every morning i walk through the dining room i'm filled with sanding sugar it's all over yes it's uh you actually have it in your house um no okay but i was trying to think of the most random thing that was on here that i would not own and so all those items are in every single box including the one you purchase in your store in addition to that every one of these teams was allowed to bring their own items and as we go through this and allow them to get into the competition we will uh start start figuring out or discovering which items they brought here today on their own so the chefs have started uh the manhattan day school youngsters are assisting them and actually working with them i should say as a team and the grand prize today and all the prizes by the way uh our friends at manoshevitz made sure to get uh some really great gifts and all the prizes today are being provided by michael's have you heard of michael's the craft from what i'm told michael's is a really cool craft place and very well known and today the team that wins today's competition the students who wins is going to be receiving a 100 gift card from michaels and the chef that wins a 150 gift card from michaels in addition every youngster will leave today with a hanukkah house and a gift card from michael's as well so everybody's going to be treated to a delicious hanukkah house and of course to a michael's gift certificate to enjoy uh after their appearance here at manhattan day school yes you got to see what's going on here well what is that you describe it for me please since i have i i never have a clue and i see people baking decorating cooking i can't figure out is it cool not cool with exacto knives that's number one what is that that's that's just fun if you're a kid it's a little frightening if you're the adult there are exacto knives out we have students who are needing packages of icing i mean what was the last time you saw a kid needing a pa and she's kneading let me tell you that's some that's some skill we have stuff going on over here we have i we have piping bags that are out by the way this is why you brought me just because i know the lingo oh you got some offset spatulas i'm still trying to figure out what was provided by managed evidence and what they brought on their own there are sour sticks and mike and ike's in the house holy cow i know that's a lot of fun who wouldn't want their hanukkah house to have that on the tea biscuits actually like my real house we made out of mica nikes we should also mention by the way in terms of the nars kite that i usually contribute the national holiday this friday is the gingerbread house oh i love when it comes out on a friday it's always disturbing when it's earlier in the week it throws off the whole calendar but i like it very much when it's on a friday so i guess this week we'll call it the hanukkah house right national fabulous absolutely and thank you man of chevis all right um how much time has elapsed so far i got real sigel we have 35 minutes left the first five minutes are all very often the toughest five minutes for these people are the first five minutes it's there's there seems to be little struggle but more fighting with the icing i would have to i would have to say what do you mean what type of what type of trouble could icing give you well i will put it to this way if i had to bet on who would win the icing or the chef yeah i'm betting on the icing does it happen all the time or just in this case right now one of our chefs has just said it always chef monokum has uh he's taking that bet chef menachem has completely given into the icing he's admitted that in every isaac situation he's the loser imagine that look how quickly the houses are being put together and that by the way is part of the um appeal yes of the hanukkah house is that every person who buys a hanukkah house or buys a kid should understand that they are assembled quite easily and the goal of this competition is to see the different ways that they can be decorated and the different ways that people's personalities or creativity can be displayed through their hanukkah house the the struggle so to speak is not in the assembly of the hanukkah house but rather how are we going to decorate it this year you know what i discovered yesterday on the internet that of all the houses out there during this time of year the hanukkah house is the least expensive our friends in manichevids have not always made jews made a house that was more less expensive than everyone else never has anything that never has happened before but in this case man of chevis has done everybody a good favor they've gone ahead and created a delicious treat and a great project for hanukkah and in addition to that did it at a reasonable price how do you like that i'd ask everybody for a round of applause but they're so busy we don't want to disturb chef menachem in the icing fight there's fondant being rolled over here is that a good thing or a bad thing well if you're the fondant it's a bad thing but if you're the contestant it's a great thing really yeah so this this team this team which is i got to get my team straight here uh that's uh that's uh chef debra and student gem right that's this team team number two the two of them have what you would call what an advantage or a something creative that other teams may not have thought of i think it's going to depend a lot on their time management so whatever so whatever that stuff is that you mentioned it takes time to work with you're saying danny if you can zero in on chef menachem and his continual fight with the icing it would probably provide a lot of entertainment menachem and andy have their house built look at this they can practically rent out the place already it is built it is up the contractors are thrilled yeah met the deadline oh cause they're coming back year after year to fix that roof buddy yeah if that's your chimney you're not touching my house i don't like to split the top of the roof you know that especially on a day like today can cause some problems chef am i am i messing with your game should i just be quiet now you know how my kids feel i i really one of the things we love doing during the competition is speaking to the chefs and students but i feel guilty they're so they're so focused on what's happening here this is super cute i feel like what do you think miriam can we interrupt and we can yeah i'll be i can be quiet so do me a favor take this microphone say hello to a chef merlin you got a mic over there i do say hello to chef merlin and to chevy they're teamed up here at table number four and and find out what their plan is here chef marlene how are you i am well what we got going on here well we already put the house together now we're gonna start decorating pretty soon that is one neat house thank you thank you that is one yes chevy have you ever built a house before no do you think you're going to be building a house again maybe all right so far what's the most fun part i don't know all right well we'll come back to you have you eaten have you tried the food yet have you sampled any of the candy you can tell me nobody's listening your parents are not here okay i just was kidding about the parents part um well all right so you haven't tasted any i can tell you i tried it last year it's actually quite good thank you madam chef it's for not only making a fun product but actually one that tastes good rabbi besser is sneaking behind here robbie besser you should just come on here we have a round of applause for by besser i think in advance of next year investors going to make sure that the kindergarten builds houses so that the question will be yes the next time you ask rabbi besser thank you for joining us thank you thank you for hosting us pleasure i really appreciate that i this we're we're having a good time what are you guys doing tomorrow it's very intense uh tomorrow we're starting to work on purim seeing what we can come up with right not bad by the way i you're always you're always one step ahead of me always one hog ahead of me so did you pick the four cutest kids in school because they're adorable uh we have baruch hashan 550 cute kids in school yes and they're they are they are adorable and you should know by the way that when we were setting up before before everyone else was here and i was just here i had a number of students who just voluntarily not these four kids came over and were very helpful wanted to know what was going on took the tablecloths from me did it all by themselves super cute that's great i also just want to mention how beautiful the lobby is because not every school really pays attention either to the ceiling or to the floor or to the walls but here at mds it's really quite engaging very child centered and very colorful so thank you it is the perfect location what are your hanukkah plans building a house no in fact we have some great activities coming up here and we have the uncommissioned concert coming in we have uh nahum's friend coming in the shlock rock oh solomon nice and on tuesday 24th that kushner sir rebbie who's a very famous hasidis rebbe will be coming here lighting uh the kushner's menorah which is 200 years old wow and giving brachas and khan kikel to all the children is that does that top our house competition of course not we need somewhere for him to stay okay first comes the house then comes to rebbe it's not yeah exactly exactly all right so malcolm where are we now well we're in like i must say we're in this beautiful lobby and you made a very good point anybody watching around the world the festive atmosphere of the manhattan day school entrance is exactly what goes on here every single day it's an amazing place a lot of warmth and uh this is not a show this i mean it's a show but you know what i mean they they are like this on a daily basis where are we at now very simple you're going to move over to table number three and you're going to speak to chef menachem and andy chef menachem and andy samuels together i think i'm better off just talking to andy okay go ahead andy hi hi how are you i'm good yeah having a good time tell me what you're up to well we're making all the diamonds well these lines the same color like that cool that's great and how's it working with chef manaham is he on his game is he fighting with the icing yes okay how's the offset spatula working out very well was this your first time using an offset spatula is it going to be your last time probably not excellent this is the start of a new career andy this is your first time also working with an offset spatula all right let's keep that between us what table did you want me to head to andy best of luck to you we're going to chef debra deborah and jem are together and deborah's going to give you a perspective on a lot of green lines that are going on the side of her house so ask the chef what that's all about um how are you we are doing the hanukkah house for what's the family's name the potter's family in pasadena california and mrs potter loves pastels and her husband is a terrific gardener and that's what all these vines are about fantastic okay so you have vines going in different directions and you actually have you have a narrative to go along with your house yes we have a story they have a destination excellent okay that's exciting and how is how's the collaboration going very good she's very talented amazing is this oh i forgot to put that on okay well we wouldn't want to forget that did you choose the colors or these are the colors that were assigned uh no i chose these colors because um you know mrs potter loves pastels loves pastels right fantastic can we get a can we get a hint as to where the mike and ikes are coming in uh on the side of the house fantastic oh that is gonna do this one beautiful and how are we doing with time godfrey yeah let's have the time there 27 minutes to go until the houses have to be completed and we'll introduce to you the person who's gonna be responsible for judging this competition not me not you when we go to table number one we've got uh um jeremiah we've got uh where are we jeremiah and malka chef malka hershkowitz and jeremiah schwartz together and look at the detail on their front door they are paying attention i think there's a burglar alarm in the front door that's how detailed it is ask the chef about that that's pretty great how are you chef malka i'm good everything working out so far so good jeremiah is working hard jeremiah how's it going good yeah having a good time yeah would you rather be in class no okay then we're on the same page by the way i don't want to be in class either excellent is that your first you are doing a great job with that piping bag did you know that was a piping bag no you could say yes i know i really didn't okay that's fine you know you know your mom's here yes i do you do do you know that your shoes weren't tied before and it was totally stressing her out i know all right we like stressing out our parents yeah when necessary right exactly all right so we have yellow doors we sorry we have yellow windows we have a blue door fantastic what kind of uh surprise decorations did you come up with um so i thought of cinnamon sticks and hopefully we can put like some logs on the side for firewood nice just an idea anybody taste any ingredients yet we're going to accessorize that house there's no time to taste the ingredients of chef malcolm there'll be time later don't worry excellent all right thank you chefs thank you students we're here at manhattan day school and we are building the manuscripts hanukkah house the person responsible for judging all of this is the assistant brand manager at manishevitz at sarah stromer sarah let's get sarah on camera here she first of all everyone's going to want to know how to identify her when she reaches her decision i can tell you that much welcome to our big competition and thank you for hosting us at manushevitz thank you for having me a pleasure all right uh you're looking at what's going on here we have four high quality teams what is impressing you so far in general what's going to make this so difficult to judge for you how intensely people are working yeah they are putting in a lot of effort aren't they yeah and a lot of houses are up already yeah a lot of good things are are happening here i don't want to ask you if you're leaning one way or the other yet but i would bet you're not i would bet you'd think it's too early to make any evaluation it's very early to make that decision oh we must be in school that is not the official govery siegel belt that is just class uh all right so we're going to uh we're going to turn to you at the end of all this and you'll tell us who is the winner the winner is receiving a gift certificate for a gift card i should say from michaels you mentioned that all the participants are going to be receiving all the chefs are going to be receiving and the students are going to be receiving everyone's getting a michael's dick we're going to get michael's gift cards we want to thank them very much for participating with mata shevitz in this when i said this is available the hanukkah house is available all around the country that's a true statement right that is a true statement it is everywhere if people go on the web what's the easiest way for them to order it there are three ways they could go to the manachevitstore.com they could go to ohnuts.com the onox candy store is carrying it and we'll ship it nice amazon.com also is carrying it and they will ship it as well and there are a ton of supermarkets and pharmacies even cvs rite aid walgreens and tons of supermarkets that are carrying it and we encourage people to either email us or contact us through any of our social media to find out the nearest location to them to find a place to get it because there is limited amounts one of my colleagues in the radio business posted on a social media site recently how he discovered the hanukkah house and was thrilled i don't know if you saw that yeah you saw that was really cool and he's got a lot of followers i'll tell you that much and last year this really burst onto the scene for us a lot of us had not heard of the manufacturer house until last hanukkah uh how many years have been around this is a tradition already for how long it started in 2012 so it's still a baby but it's it's out there and people know it and people love it costco also carries it and people are tweeting us that they find it in costco and they're loving it you can even buy the hanukkah house in bulk they have the large cottages the extraordinary still the same size that you could fall kidding around all right uh you can make your whole gated community of its hanukkah house sarah stromer is ready to judge this competition she's looking intently to see how both these chefs and the students are doing here at manhattan day school and building the chronic house good luck with this and right after you make your decision make sure to dash for the door you know how it is exactly with you judges better you than us exactly we don't have to make this decision that's for sure thank you sarah thank you all right we're here at manhattan day school and i want to thank zk who's our engineer and of course danny goldberg who's taking care of our camera work and producing our show today as miriam elwalik and i are here as the commenters the commentators those who are bringing you the play-by-play of this incredible competition going on in manhattan day school you know mds i know this because six of my kids went through the mds preschool they're not far into really cool projects i can tell you as a parent who watched many a project walk through the door these are very skilled kids when it comes to projects and look at this their parents agree with me they have had many years of tremendous work in the area of arts and crafts and building projects for holidays that they've brought home i mean you walk you walk into an mds home before a holiday you'll see stacks and stacks of projects and books at different folders that have been created by the students and their teachers in advance in a big holiday you can't possibly sit down to a pesach seder without a crate full of different items that have been created at manhattan day school and it's the same with hanukkah they'll be coming home next week with a whole bunch of great projects right am i right what are you laughing at over there they've built a table inside the house oh my gosh that is creative hence the need for the tea biscuits a table inside that they really could use the extra large house maybe they want to put a few bedrooms in there and other accessories as well this is super intense folks so as we build the chanukah house from mana chev it's got real seagull what are we at we have 20 minutes to go we have 20 minutes to go and then the and then the the brief competition between these four teams will be over the next chef to have a fight with the icing station number two yeah it seems to be a common problem i'm telling you it's good that i wasn't asked to build one of these things i it would be a disgrace you know what that's what we should do this afternoon build a hanukkah house yes we have like an extra hour in the studio today can i start pointing out how some of these houses are developing yes station number four where we have chef merlin and student chevy what do you think this is already starting to look like a real house right it's super cool it looks nice at station number three where we have chef menachem and andy samuels also beginning to look like a very interesting house i don't know if i would paint my roof the way they've done it but i will tell you that this certainly has some charm to it i also like the grass that's surrounding the front and backyard as well and there are lego men in attendance here at it's jewish lego men or lego jew i don't know where the adjective goes there if you go to chef debra and jem they already not only have put up this unique front door that i spoke about or they're working on that but on the back of their house they have chanukah decorations sort of at holiday time people like to commemorate their holiday but with it with the house being lit up a certain way they already have both a hanukkiah a hanukkah menorah and the dreidel on the side of their house because mrs potter likes pastels that must be there we go and mrs potter seems to really love yellow and green i can tell you that yes and there seems to be a light they're right they're putting a light in there's a light show did you know there was a light show this is amazing if you want to read inside the house at night we need the potters to see inside the house nice i like that that's fun and totally psyching elsa oh wait the logs are in place and finally uh chef malka and jeremiah schwartz have made good on their commitment that they are going to use the cinnamon sticks to uh to make it look like there there are wooden logs around the house give it that farm-like country-like feel um it's a boring name zonos and a barramundi summon there you go right there all in one house and and the and it's shaping up as well to be a great looking hanukkah house so there you go the do-it-yourself manuschevitz hanukkah house is a vanilla cookie decorating kid everything is included including the icing colors the sprinkles the mini beads the six pointed star of david minora and mozilla sugar decorations sanding sugar and all the instructions are on the box it's quick build which means that the setup board is really easy to put together in addition to being edible is really easy to put together which is really cool and we should for a moment we should talk about the ckca absolutely because the center for kosher culinary arts under the uh leadership of chef jesse blonder has gone ahead and again cooperated with us in a wonderful stunt uh here at the home signal network in this case providing four of their incredible graduates to work with the students and to show the world what it's like to build a manufacture house what can you tell me about ckca well i've attended actually a number of classes there they're a tremendous amount of fun especially date night and the competition steak night is a favorite at the wallex it's a uh do you cook steaks well you don't cook states at the wallex but you pay for the class at ckca and you go and you you use the skills that you pick correct and there's also well i'm sure it has a different name a classier name but it's butchering night where there is a okay that's what it is where there's a large piece of animal and you learn how to cut the different cuts and cut the different pieces of meat and then you prepare them very nice with chef avraham wiseman all these chefs by the way really appreciated the way you just described that oh i'm a vegetarian that's as close as we get they really thought you did a good job with that one let me tell you sorry about that um also i want to take an opportunity to uh since we're here at manhattan day school and i have in the siegel family has such an amazing history here i want to uh i want to thank rabbi besser i want to thank uh mrs melzer maura aviva mr incel and of course toyota did you notice toyota behind the desk when you walked in i did yeah toyota is in charge of security here the only way that we know that all of the hanukkah houses are secure and have the proper amount of supervision safety wise is because toyota is in charge we are in new york city if you're watching around the world this is not what happens every day in new york but it's happening today at mds we're building the manufacture house at four different stations and one of these teams will be declared the winner by our representative from manishevids we have how much time left 16 minutes chefs and students we have 16 minutes to go until we declare this competition over until we ask you to drop your icing and not drop the house but drop your eyes away from the step away from the house that's right so we have fondue sardines are up we have fondant that was rolled over here and is then cut with an exacto knife we have that is that is over here at table number two or station number two over here at station number one it looks if i'm not mistaken like the chimney is being bricked am i right chef malka i am right bricked all right i was right once today we'll take that so this the and jeremiah is actually delicately placing we're deciding where to place the little we have mug we have the the six-pointed stars right we have our mug and duvet and we have the two menorahs all that are those are icing those are like hardened fondant they're edible correct okay from what i'm told they're delicious they came with that and a cup of coffee and you're set for the rest of the day that a pastry and a cup of coffee i should ask sarah from manishevitz by the way when i have her on later when people eat the chanukah house like let's say someone builds it next tuesday in advance of the first night of hanukkah did they then go ahead that night and eat the hanukkah house does it have to last for eight days and you eat it bit by bit does it last till the eighth day and you don't even start eating till day eight of chanukah this is one of the most confusing regulations i've ever thought of it's like purim by the way the day after hanukkah is over nobody eats it well obviously you asked you asked the people from adam shevitz they're not selling much after hanukkah but beforehand whoo this thing is flying off the shelves there's a lot of yellow sanding sugar being sprinkled in in earnest by andy over here at station number three yeah andy seems to be a standing sugar aficionado yeah andy i we get a mic for andy let me just borrow that for a second andy you are super excited about that yellow sanding sugar so what were you did you have a design in mind or you were just feeling a lot of sanding sugar both excellent so in terms of the design tell me what we've got going on because i see that there's a menorah it seems to almost be lit on this side of the house which i'm sure we'll get when we look at the different angles but what else do we have going on we have on the roof we have stripes like yellow blue yellow blue yellow blue yellow and then on this side it's dark blue yellow dark blue light blue dark blue yellow dark blue and where are we going to put the jewish lego man um we're going to make him touching the masseuse nice very good choice there good choice there andy and by the way are you a big fan of the candy buttons because the candy buttons were the were one of the um decorations that chef menachem you can keep moving with the icing there don't worry about me so the candy buttons were one of the ingredients that chef manafort brought with him which is your favorite color um what do you mean my favorite color of the candy buttons oh blue do you think they all taste alike is it like eminem's where people think that they taste they're very close but they're very close yeah all right i don't want to disrupt you and i certainly do not want to distract chef menachem so we will get back to you how we doing over here this is a super pretty house hey don't influence the judges mrs wallace i'm i'm i'm i heard you say super pretty sarah i hope the judge had her ears closed on that one super pretty house hey again okay okay okay okay no it's not the prettiest how's it working together any major fights no food fights would you rather be in class okay we'll just make what class are you missing by the way hebrew all right we'll learn some more hebrew later yeah so you know a little less hebrew exactly you're not going to build this everything you didn't end up going to israel anyway don't they thumbs up for that there boss thank you excellent chef marlene is this easier or oh there went my mic is this easier or harder to assemble than you expected it's easy it's very easy yes fantastic so would you with my assistant perfect nice oh big props nice job so look at that when it says here quick build edible setup board included do-it-yourself easy to build manufa is a hundred percent accurate chef merlin says yes it's easy to build i like that a product that's true to its word no don't you enjoy that it's all good how much time do we got we're ready what's the clock say 11 minutes 11 minutes and that'll do it for the competition oh man and then the pressure will really start by the way we should just uh remind everybody where we were last year because we do think manushevitz this is our second year can you imagine last year we had this incredible uh stun show that we did at the laviate library in cedarhurst and we had four amazing teams just like this year and the competition was really hot and heavy so to speak and it was a great show it went so what you'd think you would think that you know why on earth would somebody go ahead and want to do this competition again and then mana chevits and everybody around the country was so thrilled with the excitement that this competition brought we went ahead and and you actually thought of a great idea to bring it to a great school manhattan day school to include ckca to include their original items a lot of things that were brought here that are not included in the box and now we have volume two or year two of the hanukkah house competition imagine that and soon we're gonna have a winner declared as the tension continues to mount at the manhattan day school lobby you feel that tension it's super exciting oh look and chef exciting all right chef mulkey by the way actually made it snow on the top of her roof oh i like the top am i right on the top of your chimney fantastic it's snowing there in that neighborhood it's snowing and that neighborhood is snowing can i ask what the marshmallows are going to be for um they were back up all right everybody's got to have back up we brought in such experienced chefs they actually knew to bring backup material that's how good these chefs are amazing and we have jeremiah also using the yellow sanding sugar over here all right jeremiah pour it on no matter what the chef tells you you always want to use more than less that's the rule that seems to be wow that's the trend huh that is yeah less is not more here is going to be more exactly a big thank you to jesse blonder and everybody from ckca the center for kosher culinary arts search them online if you're looking to become a great kosher chef they do great even if you don't want to be a great kosher chef you just want to be part of an event that's a lot of fun they put together a bunch of events that are a lot of fun on a regular basis you can check that out there on coney island avenue in brooklyn new york we mentioned earlier that the manischewitz assistant brand manager sarah stromer is going to be making the big decision here today and as she mentioned earlier the manushevitz hanukkah house is available all around the country places like some of the top um the top stores in the in the country like cvs and costco they carry it uh amazon carries it online the manufacturer of course has it online oh nuts has it online you could buy it and enjoy it and if you order it today as you watch this in the first run you could certainly have it before hanukkah we should also by the way make mention it's a nut-free product well it has to be right otherwise you wouldn't have been invited to manage school correct but i should just make sure that everyone notices it is not it does contain soy and wheat for those people who have allergies but everyone should just know it is a nut did any of the teams bring in peanuts or anything no as one of the extras no you're sure correct did we do it oh we have toyota's security so she checked and made she uh she saw my dunkin donuts bag and specifically made sure that everything that there was no doughnut involved oh so my plan to have you turned away completely didn't work but she did give you a hard time no yeah it was this close it was this close all right there was a big picture of me with a line over it when i got it so i tried to convey that message but by the time i was here it seems to have gone for an hour so thank you to everybody at manushevitz and i remind you that manuschevitz is part of their friendship and teamwork with michaels uh has gone ahead and michael's has provided amazing gift cards for all of our participants today which means everyone's going to walk away with great prizes and hanukkah houses on their own but in addition to that the winner of the competition excuse me i haven't said anything i'm just laughing because i'm thinking about if you and i had a table doing this also what ours would look like i know what you would look like that much there'd be icing everywhere that's for sure um why are you making the hanukkah frat house you've had a lot of yeah what's the time guys oh sorry let's try to focus on this yeah no seven minutes and 40 seconds seven minutes and 40 seconds does this does this mds scoreboard turn into a countdown clock by any chance no we got to work out we're going to work on that for next year it welcomed us by the way it did welcome yes very nice and menacing did it spell your name right um the 100 gift card goes to the student the 150 gift card goes to our winning chef and then of course gift cards of other denominations are being given to everybody who's participating today thank you michaels and thank you for working with mata chevettes to make today a very special day for us and a really fun and cool competition the hanukkah homes the hanukkah houses well some of them look like homes already they are being built as we speak with all the extras and all the different items that come in the hanukkah house box and we're already into the home stretch the last few minutes six minutes and change remain in the comp seven minutes remain in the competition and i want to thank gavrie siegel who's handling the clock and every house you know it's funny about 10 minutes ago certain houses i looked at that are behind us at the different stations and i said uh-oh you know where is this going do they realize there's only a few minutes left to this whole thing and now look just a few minutes later the houses look great with a lot of great accoutrements around them you'd notice the grass and the and the different things around the houses well i would definitely take a moment when the competition is over to ask the chefs if the time management of this entire project was one of the more challenge challenging part of this competition that is i'm sure if you had endless time it would be a different way to build it exactly you know when you buy it for your house for your home you do have endless time you know that unless you have a really pressing dreidel game to go to other than that you have all the time you need um where's our judge we're sarah yeah i've heard of that sarah join miriam and myself here for a moment but put her in the center for a moment we'll put her on the hot seat where's her microphone zk let's get sarah over here i don't know i don't know what your feelings are on this but you are the judge and i will tell you now that as much as we were joking about it before i am glad i'm not the judge because these are last year we had great houses and if you look at the video from last year they were very impressive with the professional chefs uh completely you know on the roster here this year we may have stepped it up uh maybe even higher quality as you look at this you must say to yourself you have a very tough decision to make very tough i will say that they're coming out better than the ones i did i had to make one for kosher fest to put out there for us to have on display so don't worry nobody goes to kosher fest i'm sure nobody saw what you thought right exactly so you were responsible for building the hanukkah house before kosher fest and you couldn't keep up with today's did you want us to get an mds kid to go with you for next year next year right okay one of these kids with me yeah comes to my house and andy's got game andy yeah i see this that's it that's all you need is that smile i'll sell them all for so far you've highlighted a couple of different tables for you yeah i like that i well i think i've highlighted old's table have you highlighted everything i don't love one of my children more than they are giving at least one compliment to every team here that is you know me i'm trying to be as fair as possible yeah uh anyway so you have a tough decision to make very tough and um keep moving around there's an inclusion of guilt by the way of hanukkah yes at the first time see like i don't know if that that might actually i know it's an influence propel a judge to say hey you know look this team has used this and it's really hanukkah related and all that you know yeah i was thinking of using applesauce on one of the houses because we use it for latkes so you know that's a hanukkah item how would that affect that right just dump a tablespoon of applesauce inside the house i figured yeah i mean how many hanukkah houses you know when i said before that we should assemble this in the afternoon in the studio now that there's applesauce involved there's a know i mean you know all you got to do is is try to recreate what happens in a real home you know much applesauce ends up on the floor during hanukkah because of latke eating come on do you think zk lets us eat in the studio there's no applesauce allowed in the studio maybe you're right but you know we're not building a studio we're building a nice home all right uh sarah good luck we'll introduce you again when the time runs out and when three and a half minutes all right three and a half minutes everybody now we really have to start watching the clock danny let's pan around and show everybody what's happening so you're right danny the first one to your your left to your left we have um chef malka hershkowitz with jeremiah schwartz probably your last good look at what they're doing uh before they end everybody around the world pay careful attention to what's going on in table number one it's snowing on table number one lots of snow at table number one i guess mauka and jeremiah come from a really cold weather place it's a little bit life imitating art right now here in new york then as we move to table number two you'll meet chef deborah benelli and jem hannan there together as chef and fourth grader here at manhattan day school building a hanukkah house from manishevitz lots of detail on this one take a good look and you'll see what they're up to with just three minutes to go we move on to table number three where chef menachem roder menachem redder and andy samuels are doing their hanukkah house and building it together another house with great detail and a lot of extra items we should give the chefs an opportunity to really that's being plated i would say that that table number four station number four is the equivalent of being plated we'll get to four as we uh as we remind everybody that chef marlene lundy and chevy epstein together it looks like they've declared themselves built it looks like both chef marlene can we get him chevy are now on vacation they've they're going on winter vacation the house is built the contractor is happy and now they're going away chevy can we see your hands can you hold up your hands for danny i want everyone to see those are serious it was a serious house building that's it uh all right this house looks like it's ready it's complete and uh judge sarah is gonna have to look at this one carefully along with the other three and come up with a decision it also looks very stable it does look like a stable house remember last year's have a good foundation all right don't hold these good foundation last year we had a couple of homes that did not look as stable yeah and uh on the way out of the uh competition last year i think they officially fell apart not only didn't they look stable they did not stay stable what are we doing on time one minute to go wow at 10 seconds we'll ask everybody in the lobby to participate in our countdown after all we have to make it as dramatic as possible the candy buttons are being applied by the way station number three how long are we into the show zkay how much 42 42 okay perfect timing once we have counted down once we have counting down we are going to ask judge sarah to take a close look at all four of the houses that have been built we will again thank our teams we will reiterate the prizes that are being given out today at manhattan day school and then we will thank mds and mata shevitz and the ckca 40 seconds and everybody who helped us in today's efforts with the home signal network you know i couldn't figure out by the way what station one was going to use the box of confectionary sugar for oh gosh it's snow half genius is that i want you to know 10 minutes ago there was nothing on that table i know it's amazing what they're doing and you got hansel and gretel's hanukkah house over there oh gosh that one looks oh they all look edible it's unbelievable oh my god 20 seconds because chef marlene will tell you that the most important part about baking and cooking is cleaning up afterwards right chef most importantly seven six five four three two one that is it hands up everybody oh my gosh we have transformed manhattan day school into an amazing culinary establishment today in the lobby of manhattan day school in new york city those of you watching around the world you're going to be treated one more time to the go round our cameraman danny is going to be focusing on all four of the houses as judge sarah stromer of manichevit starts to look closely and come up with her evaluation of today's competition and he's been caught green-handed he's been quite quick and he's been quite green-handed danny we should just get a shot now of andy's hands because um i dare yeah anybody you know if we ask rabbi besser who he thinks should win he's got to give one of those diplomatic answers right they're all winners here right he'll say something like they're all winners let's give it a whirl let's give it a shot let's go to my best sir take that microphone and say rabbi besser in your opinion who is the winner of today's copyright let's see what if he can come up with a creative diplomatic answer what do the seagull children and stephen wallace have in common and the answer is rabbi besser as principal of their school wow stephen did not go to mds but steven's joke always was that he was with rabbi besser so much they shared an office yes and i just announced that you wouldn't say that about my kids would you rather absolutely not all right zk that's on we're ready okay uh miriam go ahead ask the question so so what yeah you know great right how much fun was this amazing i don't know which other network's coming in here to pull some kind of a stunt like this but i'm happy that you decided to part partner with us ask him who the winner is come on okay well malcolm's egging you on and i'm trying to be nice but hey oh well so what do you think i think the number one winner here is the nakhon siegel show thank you oh that's good of course you got a nice show lots of drama thank you well we definitely bring our own drama i think the number two winner is the manuscripts company all right let's hear it from that got a lot of publicity certainly did they certainly did and i think it's a tie between the chefs and the students a shocker thank you rob ambassador mcmaster really appreciates being asked that question i told you i told you jump all over that one let me tell you exactly oh no sarah was like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't blame you i'd panic also look at these houses give sarah a chance to really yeah sarah you take your time we have a few minutes left you take your time examine each one carefully uh if you have any questions you want to ask the chefs or any of the students go ahead and do so we should take a group picture of all eight of the participants right how many tea biscuits are left sorry i'm focused on the cheapest i'm very excited thank you i don't get right i don't get a vote though i don't get involved judging exactly it's pathetic though that i'm more excited about the tea biscuits than the entire package of mike and ike's but what can i say sarah's thinking back to the one she built for kosher fest and is about to ask the chefs you really were able to do this right i tried my best didn't come out like this oh okay he also has a backstory to his backstory let's find out well we got to give them a second let's give him the microphone go ahead it's in hawaii that's why like all the windows and stuff are falling and the puddle it used to be frozen but now since they're in hawaii it's it's all blue and it's all watery so it's melted snow got it chef could you do me a favor is there a way to carefully turn this around i'd love for everybody to see that manhattan day school is written on the on this side of the house you see that yes mds ckca nsn and manoshevitz are all included on that now that is one good strategy by chef menachem to include to include all the sponsors on the side of his hand andy go ahead and a man touching him very nice boy a lot of nice things there uh chef can we get a little i don't want to touch it because i i may break it but can we uh turn it around to drop so everyone everyone can see in the camera the uh the different sides to this incredible hanukkah house there you go wow very nice some of the leaves that are growing from the bottom of the house on to the sides and we have the little decorations on top of the house which is blue and some of the silver thing which when i was young i used to think they were diamonds as my mom used to do um baking with me and she used to make wedding cakes and i said let me put the diamonds let me put the diamonds diamonds are a chef's best friend right yes diamonds on a house or a girl the house decorated with diamonds all right thank you chef let's move over here danny and see maybe chef can we move this around the drop so everybody can see the different sides of the chanukah house and the way it came out this is um mr potter's house yeah in pasadena california that's why it's all flowers and mrs potter loves flowers and mr potter is a very special he's a great gardener so he creates his roses like a menorah and this is the last night of hanukkah and that's why all the flowers are in bloom and we've got a dreidel in the back and on the inside we have what um we have a table with vodkas jelly donuts and a a table with vodkas jelly donuts and manure inside can you see that all the way inside the house i don't know if you could get can get there nice job very nice job everybody and if we go to table number one chef what can you tell us about the house um it's definitely snowing it's very cold that's why they need their firewood very cold yeah um you could just twist that or turn it around to drop so everyone can get a perspective on what the house looks like from all four sides yeah can you can you do one turn if possible i don't want to tell you i'm not going to take the chance i don't want to break anything but this way they'll see that on the back you have a nice holiday decoration i love those windows on the back yeah nice job on that window made what they get i like how those windows are frost free in the cold weather hey yeah beautiful one second drifting snow in the window there's drifting snow in the window all right round of applause for all four participants you want to go to a song and then come back to sarah's decision i think sarah needs to buy some time all right we're going to go to one quick song which miriam is going to prepare for hanukkah 5775 as we continue our celebration here manhattan day school everyone can take a breath i'd love to get danny if you could set everybody up for an official photo all four of our chefs and all four of our students with our besser and sarah and all of our uh wonderful hosts and then we will continue with our decision coming up here at the home single network they gonna see us from outer space for the human race is no we just want to be right now sleep we can light it up and we gonna let it burn down remember all right here we are this is the uh the final segment of our chanukah stun show thank you manushevitz the manushevitz hanukkah house is available everywhere today was built four times over at manhattan day school a big thank you to everybody here at mds big thank you to michaels who's gonna be providing the gift cards as prizes for our winners and thank you to ckca jesse blonder the great chef on coney island avenue with the culinary with the center for kosher culinary arts on coney island avenue in brooklyn for providing an amazing array of graduate chefs here today to work with us much appreciated i remind everybody say it again we'll get to sarah in a minute better her than me you can say that again uh remind everybody danny this is the um this is the hanukkah house as prepared at station number one by chef malka malkoverskovitz and andy samuel and um jeremiah schwartz malka and jeremiah let's have a round of applause for them station number two we remind everybody that chef deborah benelli and jem hannan together built this hanukkah house at station number two round of applause for them we focus on station number three in the chanukah house with chef menachem redder and andy samuels this is the one they built right here and at hanukkah house station number four chef marlene lundy and chevy epstein they created this hanukkah house at station number four nice round of applause for them all of our students today from the fourth grade class at manhattan day school and now you'll see on your video screen some of the crowd that has gathered to be part of this amazing tense final moments of our competition miriam wallace joining us no one's in class yeah miriam wallace joined me uh sarah in the center over here uh give us a word about how difficult this was to judge for sarah stromer of manishevitz how nervous are you right now by the way i'm really nervous and also it's like good practice for me because we're actually having starting today our own hanukkah decorating competition for the houses through facebook so some of these students could go home again with their families and decorate the houses that they'll be getting and then enter through facebook to also win some good prizes through there so one second i'm going this is practice man give a recommendation to some of the parents who are here sure go ahead take pictures right now of your kids houses because all right just keep posting them on instagram posting them on facebook immediately you know right now on our facebook page big stuff is going on and anybody who doesn't win today hold back on your disdain for sarah because she may end up making you a winner on facebook so there's still time are there the same rules by the way what are the rules for the rules for the facebook competition is you have to buy our house use it and then basically let your imagination go you could use whatever and you could even build it last year someone built a garage for it and a whole like yard for it it was very intense over achiever yes basically and um it's just let your creativity soar and it's their three prizes and it's basically judged on creativity how aesthetically pleasing it looks and we have that going on so these four students could go again and anyone who's watching could go out and buy and manage seventh has taken some of our great ideas we're happy to share with ourselves all right four great teams sarah now is the moment of truth now we must award the grand prize to one of these teams of chef and fourth grade student here at manhattan day school tell us who is the winner of today's competition i'm gonna go have with station number two station number two and i remind you get a close-up danny i remind you that station number two is uh is is uh led by um by deborah binelli who's our chef and jem hannan who's in fourth grade here at manhattan day school they are the winners congratulations sarah you could join them back there for a little uh photographic evidence of their great achievement uh now chef if there's any way is there a way to lift the house and hold it together with everybody is there a way to do that if there's a way to do that this will go everywhere as the official what's starting thursday it'll go everywhere as the official winner of the manischewitz hanukkah house competition here at the nakhon siegel network so congratulations to our winners congratulations to all of our runners up as they say and as everybody says rightfully so everybody today is a winner at manhattan day school with our manushevitz competition congratulations thank you all so much for joining us a big thank you to mana chevitz to ckca to chef jesse blonder to uh all of our friends here at uh at mds thank you danny goldberg thank you very much sarah stromer from manish evans who did a great job judging i think only six people had any problems with the judging other than that i think he did fine i'm just kidding everyone knows that you did a great job zk thank you for all your help and to gabriel siegel who was there with our timer miriam wallock we thank him one of the most one of the most important jobs of the day thank you miriam walking happy hanukkah nice to you sir thank you very much take care everybody thank you for joining us at this historic day with manischewitz at manhattan days called the home signal network a little bit of light just a little bit little bit of light just a little bit of light a little bit of light just a little bit of light foreign