Hanukkah on Rye movie on Hallmark Channel celebrates the holiday with a romance between competing deli owners.
What is the Movie Plot?
Molly is ready to become the fourth generation of her family to run Gilbert’s Deli in New York City. Now, almost 100 years later, Gilbert’s is the last old-school Jewish deli standing. And it’s getting harder and harder to make ends meet.
Meanwhile, Jacob’s family are “deli royalty” in Southern California and have a completely different way of doing business. Jacob wants to make his own mark in the deli world. To do that, he’s spearheading the expansion of Leven’s to New York City just blocks away from Gilbert’s.
A couple weeks before the first night of Hanukkah, Jacob’s “bubby” gives Jacob an early Hanukkah gift: a meeting with an infamous matchmaker. Molly’s bubby has the same idea.
According to the rules, Jacob and Molly must write handwritten letters under assumed names to get to know each other. As they begin to write to each other under their pseudonyms of Beth and David, they begin to fall for each other.
At the same time, Jacob has come to New York to close the deal for the new Leven’s location, and Molly and Jacob meet in real life, and neither is aware they know each other as Beth and David through their letters.
In the end, will Molly and Jacob put their differences aside and get their own Hanukkah miracle?
What is the Release Date of the Movie?
Hanukkah on Rye premieres on Hallmark Channel on December 18 2022 at 8 PM ET/PT.
What is the Cast of Hanukkah on Rye?
Jeremy Jordan plays Jacob with Yael Grobglas as Molly. Peter DeLuise directs the film with story from Julie Sherman Wolfe.
