Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo

Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo is a bingo challenge created in 2022 by aimmyarrowshigh to "celebrate Hanukkah on its own terms and give Jewish characters and fans a place to breathe."
The bingo was initially introduced on 23 November 2022. It was featured in The Rec Center on 25 November 2022.https://buttondown.email/the-rec-center/subscribers/59274838-6aeb-45c0-bbe7-62e7642e0fd7/archive/the-rec-center-360FINAL THOUGHT
As we head into December, we wanted to highlight the Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo, an event celebrating Jewish characters and fans. From the post:Why? Jewish characters and Jewish fans are often overlooked or erased during the Winter Holiday Season in favor of “Secret Santa” exchanges, Christmas-themed fics, and the idea that ~Hanukkah is Jewish Christmas~ (which spoiler for all fics in this bingo: it’s not). This panfandom Bingo challenge is to celebrate Hanukkah on its own terms and give Jewish characters and fans a place to breathe. :)You can find full details and the bingo board in the post!
And SOMEWHAT RELATED: as we’ve done in Decembers past, we’re currently soliciting wintry fics: stories centered around the upcoming holidays, or just ones with winter vibes. And as always—and as the fest above underscores—we strongly encourage folks to rec things other than Christmas fics (yes, please more fics that center Jewish characters!!) (but also non-denominational fics are very welcome haha). You can use our one-off rec form, and please tag your recs with “winter recs” or whatever holiday in the tropes and themes field. — Elizabethhttps://buttondown.email/the-rec-center/subscribers/59274838-6aeb-45c0-bbe7-62e7642e0fd7/archive/the-rec-center-360
=== 2022 ===
As of December 4, 2022, the original post had garnered 544 notes on Tumblr.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/701729509493342208 The first night of the Bingo, 20 works were posted in total, 17 of which were added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704037230233190402/chag-hanukkah-sameach-everyone-we-havehttps://archiveofourown.org/collections/hanukkahbingo The second night had 12 works added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704130956203868160 The third night had 12 works, 10 of which were added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704223321030639617/chag-hanukkah-sameach-everyone-we-have-12-great The fourth night had 17 works, 13 of which were added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704314747541225472 The fifth night saw a slight dip, with 11 total works, 10 of which were added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704402823282049024 The sixth night saw 20 works added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704496931280453632 The seventh night saw 13 works added to the AO3 collection.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704586129771462656 The eighth night saw 15 works, 14 of which were added to the AO3 collection. An additional work was posted to AO3 after the final roundup was posted.https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/704676070072483840
Overall, the 2022 Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo saw over 120 works in over 75 fandoms, with 107 posted to the AO3 collection and 70 fandoms represented.
=== 2023 ===
A total of 84 works were posted for the Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo in 2023. This year, several writers chose to sign up in September-October of 2023 and receive personalized Bingo cards. There was also a general open Bingo card for anyone to use.
The most written fandoms in 2023 were the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, The Avengers, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Stranger Things, Captain America, DCU, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Babylon 5, and Ghostbusters (2016). This suggests that the majority of the Jewish characters written were not canonically Jewish, but fulfilled the Bingo requirement of being "Jew-ish," or able to be headcanoned as Jewish because it is not directly contradicted in the canon text. 
Despite this requirement, the character to appear in the most fics posted for the 2023 bingo was Steve Rogers, who is canonically Catholic.
The Bingo advertised with character posters throughout October, November, and December of 2023. The Jewish and "Jew-ish" characters featured included:
* April from Lumberjanes
* Charlotte York
* Grace Adler
* Jake Berenson
* Cassie Lang
* Kitty Pryde
* Peter Parker
* Angelica Pickles
* Padme Naberrie
* Bruce Wayne
* Ocean O'Connell-Rosenberg
* Finn
* Rebecca Bunch
* David Starsky
* Bucky Barnes
* Seth Cohen
* Stanley Uris
* Dipper Pines
* Jillian Holtzmann
* TK Strand
* David Rose
* Wanda Maximoff
* Kate Kane
* Jack Zimmerman
* Ginger Foutley
* Rebecca Rubin
* Sam Manson
* Edward Teach
* Alexis Rose
* Marc Spector
* Jake Peralta
* Katy Orloff-Diaz
* Monica Geller
* Mona-Lisa Saperstein
* Billy Kaplan
* Schmidt
* Darcy Lewis
* Morticia Addams
* Tina Cohen-Chang
* Lydia Deetz
* Julian Devorak
* Pietro Maximoff
* Spider-Noir
* Leia Organa
* Poe Dameron
* Rachel Green
* Amy Farrah-Fowler
* Ari Levinson
* Barbie
* Velma Dinkley
* Libby Stein-Torres
* Mabel Pines
* Erik Lehnsherr
* James Kirk
* The Two-Gun Kid
* Barbara Wilson (Batgirl)
* Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
* Casey Goldberg-Calderon
* Chuckie Finster
* Riley Matthews
* Harley Quinn
* Diana Prince
* Rachel Berry
* Sebastien "Booker" LeLivre
* Zed Necrodopoulous
* Cher Horowitz
* Sam Lloyd
* Alec Hardison
* Whitney Weiss
* Felicity Smoak
* Adam Birkholtz
* Scott Lang
* Francine Frensky
* Molly Tillerman
* Ilana Wexler
* Abbi Abrams
* Willow Rosenberg
* Spock
* Clark Kent
* Cassie Howard
* The Baudelaire Orphans
* Ben Grimm
* Abby Stevenson
* David "Gordo" Gordon
* Jessi Glaser
* Ziva David
* Kelsey Pokoly
* Ron Stoppable
* Jane Foster
* Fran Fine
* Steven Universe
* Asha
* Natasha Romanov
* Cristina Yang
* Liberty Van Zandt
* Eddie Munson
* Mike Wheeler
* Linda Belcher
* Joyce Byers
* Shirley Cohen
* Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson
* Annie Edison
* Cory Matthews
* Gretchen Weiners
* Han Solo
* Gert Yorkes
* Ann Perkins
* Jude Lizowski
* Johnny Rose
* Midge Maisel
=== 2024 ===
The Bingo returned in 2024 with an open Bingo card on November 25, 2024.
== References ==
Category:Multifandom Challenges
Category:Bingo