Moses is departing Egypt

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on April 1, 2009

The ashes of Lent

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 25, 2009

Merry Christmas from Ahmadinejad

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on January 5, 2009

Can a pastor get some peace? LA Times reports on Warren’s Christmas Eve sermon

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 30, 2008

Fake Santa goes nuts, kills at least five

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 25, 2008

Does Santa deliver gifts to Iraq?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 24, 2008

So that’s why Darwin looks so much like Santa Claus

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 22, 2008

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 14, 2008

Stephen Colbert and the war on Christmas

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 12, 2008

Virgin Mary bares all for Playboy Mexico

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 12, 2008

Giving thanks

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 27, 2008

How Jewish is Thanksgiving?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 25, 2008

Lynched effigy of Obama even uglier

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 30, 2008

Hanging Sarah Palin in effigy

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 28, 2008

Depicting Obama as a Muslim radical

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 28, 2008

Scalping tickets for Yom Kippur

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 8, 2008

Hollywood assistant confuses Rosh Hashanah for industry broker

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on September 30, 2008

I love the High Holy Days

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on September 26, 2008

Birthright Israel brings presidential candidates together

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on September 22, 2008

Getting furry for the Omer

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on May 22, 2008

Redux: ‘The true meaning of Passover’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on April 25, 2008

Case of the missing matzo, and not the afikomen

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on April 21, 2008

Strange translations of the Four Questions

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on April 20, 2008

A porn-free Passover

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on April 17, 2008

Rev. Lee and the true meaning of Passover

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on April 12, 2008

‘The Purim Hangover’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on March 27, 2008

And now, the fake news

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on March 22, 2008

Traditionalists: ‘Pope has felt obliged to change the very venerable prayer for the Jews’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 25, 2008

SWM seeks ‘every single other Jew’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 13, 2008

Video from Vilna

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 10, 2008

Winehouse’s Chanukah and Christmas album?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on January 16, 2008

Yes, Virginia, there is an obese Santa Claus

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 24, 2007

Silent nights without ‘Silent Night’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 23, 2007

Catholic League to Huckabee: Stop selling your Christian creds like a used-car salesman

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 21, 2007

The better soda: latke or Christmas ham?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 13, 2007

Not the typical Christmas dilemma

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 11, 2007

A modern-day Chanukah miracle along the Gaza border

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 10, 2007

The massive menorah and the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas tree’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 6, 2007

‘Chanukah is not a celebration of multiculturalism or tolerance’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 5, 2007

World Series of Dreidel spin-off

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 5, 2007

Hitchens: ‘To Hell with Hanukkah’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 4, 2007

‘Merry Christmas’ runs contrary to Chanukah

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 4, 2007

Chanukah: The Not Christmas

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 4, 2007

Tod and God’s Chanukah adventure

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 2, 2007

Santa Claus, Harry Potter and Baby Jesus

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 30, 2007

Hamsters as symbols of anti-Semitism?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 27, 2007

$100 Chanukah gelt box

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 27, 2007

Time to hang the Christmas lights

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 25, 2007

Say L’Chayim to 5768!

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on September 8, 2007

You get when you give

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on July 26, 2007

Kids

Curtain call; More holidays not on the calendar

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on March 29, 2007

Kids page.

Holidays not on the calendar

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on February 22, 2007

News from the hood, eruv in the air

Published on February 15, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Santa Claus; Uri Geller; Jimmy Carter

Published on December 28, 2006

Letters to the Editor

Saying ‘shalom’ to Santa Claus

By Kathleen Vallee Stein
Published on December 21, 2006

Occasionally, as I light a candle on the menorah on a dark December night, I think about my former Christmas dishes and the woman who bought them. I imagine that she lovingly sets them on her table, as she prepares her Christmas dinner, and I smile.

Fry the latkes, try the gingerbread

By Wendy Mogel
Published on December 21, 2006

The received wisdom for Jewish parents is not to dilute, pollute or mix traditions. Christmas is such a joy bully, if you let any of it in the door, Chanukah will be blown out the window. But just as Republicans don't own family values, Christians haven't appropriated winter gladness and glitter.

I’m… dreaming… of a white… Chri—ummm, holidays

By Larry Miller
Published on December 21, 2006

Christmas, you know (unless you've all forgotten, which is increasingly possible), doesn't celebrate the birth of Santa, but the birth of Jesus, and Jesus was a Jew.

Originality trumps repetition in the holiday songs battle

By George Robinson
Published on December 7, 2006

I will be frank. I'm tired of hearing the same holiday songs over and over. So the best Chanukah present I've received this year is a pile of Chanukah-themed CDs with lots of new holiday songs, many of them quite good.

Has your gift list got game?

By Adam Wills
Published on December 7, 2006

Demand for PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii is outstripping the available supply, and analysts predict the shortage could lead to increased demand for Microsoft's Xbox 360.

But how will you know which system is the right fit for your family?

Live from the ‘hood: we’re gonna party like it’s 5667

By David Suissa
Published on October 12, 2006

I can see going a little nuts on Purim, when we celebrate a seminal victory that saved the Jewish people, but going bananas on a day of Torah?