The annual Latke-Hamantash Debate, started at the University of Chicago in 1946, is a humorous academic debate in which faculty debate the respective merits of the two items of Jewish cuisine, the latke, and the hamantash. Arguments given by faculty members, who don their academic regalia, must be made using the specific language of their fields. For example, in the 2014 Latke-Hamantash Debate, chemistry Professor Aaron Dinner argued that the latke was eight times more fuel-efficient than the hamantash, and therefore the superior food. Past debaters include economist Milton Friedman, essayist Allan Bloom, and Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon M. Lederman.
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