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What did I miss? For seven days I didnt have salt, meat or CNN. My mornings began without Morning Joe or Morning Edition; I saw sunrise on a mountain hike, not with a clicker in my hand.
In Burmese Chanukah celebration, signs of Myanmar’s openness to the West
In almost any other community from Moscow to Washington, it would have been just another public Chanukah menorah-lighting ceremony providing an opportunity for the local government and Jewish community to showcase their strong ties.
A Tale of Two Corporate Hanukkah Displays
On the trail of the Maccabees
The heroes of Chanukah are no secret. The legendary Judah Maccabee and his warrior brothers defeated the Greek Hellenists in true Israelite fashion.
In a remote New Mexican valley, a Jewish skiing legacy at Taos
One of the most wonderful things about skiing is the sense of seclusion, the incomparable quietude and serenity of standing atop a 12,000-foot peak surveying miles and miles of snow-covered emptiness. Somehow the prosaic concerns of the everyday world dont seem to reach there.
Obama sends Chanukah wishes
President Obama wished Jews a joyous Chanukah.
What young Jews do on Christmas Eve
Sitting in front of the television eating Chinese food and watching reruns of Its A Wonderful Life isnt exactly what young Jews are doing this Christmas Eve.
Olim land in Israel on eve of Chanukah
Some 76 new immigrants from North America arrived in Israel on the eve of Chanukah.
Opinion: Jews, Christmas and Chinese food
I got a cute e-mail the other day, with a photo of a hand-lettered sign: The Chinese Rest. Assoc. of the United States would like to extend our thanks to The Jewish People/ we do not completely understand your dietary customs . . ./ But we are proud and grateful that your GOD insist you eat our food on Christmas. Followed on the bottom, left to right, by a yin/yang symbol, the words Happy Holidays!, and a Star of David.
Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays
Pump up the volume: Music propels the way to a rededicated Jewish life
My 3-year-old son is obsessed with showing people his room, sidling sheepishly over to guests and asking, Can I show you my room?
In tough times, relying on the Jewish community for help
In August, in the heat of the summer, a Boston-area mother of three began to worry about how she would pay for Chanukah gifts. Across the country in San Francisco, a 33-year-old Russian-born mother of six said that thinking about this Chanukah made her cry.
Single for the Holidays vs. Desperate Online Dating
Kashrut and Mindfulness: Savoring Fresh, Local Fare at La Seine
This is a story about a dream afternoon I spent at La Seine, where chef Alex Reznik is cooking seasonal, farm-to-table, California-Asian kosher food.
Sept. 18 24 is National Unmarried & Single Americans Week
Gossiping—What you can gain if you refrain
Too often, I realize that people preface their sentences with I heard or they say. Intrigued by the personal details and juicy information that is likely to follow, most of us allow these sentences to continue and build up into paragraphs consisting of nothing other than questionable rumors and gossip.
Rosh Hashanah ‘in the house tonight’ dances into the new year
Aish brings together rhythem, beats and davening for their 'Rosh Hashanah in the house tonight' dancing spectacle.
Serious to cute, holiday books inspire all ages
There is always something new on the shelf for the upcoming Jewish holidays, and this year we highlight a few nice childrens books and some worthwhile spiritual reading for adults.
Using Travel and the Seasons to Gain Perspective
Israel offers good-will gestures for Christmas
Christian Palestinian residents of the West Bank will be allowed to enter Israel, including overnight, for Christmas.
A Yeshiva boy and Christmas
When I was 20, I spent my junior year in college in England. When classes let out for the last two weeks of December, I traveled to Morocco, where something life-changing occurred.
Marketing for Muslim money
MLK’s prophetic legacy
Merry Armenian Christmas
Israeli president’s Christmas blessing
A Very Merry F&*#ing Christmas
Christmas for Jews
Honika Electronica
Sen. Hatch’s Hanukkah hymn
CSM says first Pilgrims ‘were a suprisingly worldly, tolerant lot’
Remembering Mumbai and giving thanks
The sex offender at the Seder
Pumpkins and popes
Where to find cheap high holy day tickets [VIDEO]
Moses is departing Egypt
The ashes of Lent
Merry Christmas from Ahmadinejad
Can a pastor get some peace? LA Times reports on Warren’s Christmas Eve sermon
Fake Santa goes nuts, kills at least five
Does Santa deliver gifts to Iraq?
So that’s why Darwin looks so much like Santa Claus
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Stephen Colbert and the war on Christmas
Virgin Mary bares all for Playboy Mexico
Giving thanks
How Jewish is Thanksgiving?
Lynched effigy of Obama even uglier
Hanging Sarah Palin in effigy
Depicting Obama as a Muslim radical
Scalping tickets for Yom Kippur
Hollywood assistant confuses Rosh Hashanah for industry broker
I love the High Holy Days
Birthright Israel brings presidential candidates together
Getting furry for the Omer
Redux: ‘The true meaning of Passover’
Case of the missing matzo, and not the afikomen
Strange translations of the Four Questions
A porn-free Passover
Rev. Lee and the true meaning of Passover
‘The Purim Hangover’
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