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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’


And now, the fake news


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


SWM seeks ‘every single other Jew’


Video from Vilna


Winehouse’s Chanukah and Christmas album?


Yes, Virginia, there is an obese Santa Claus


Silent nights without ‘Silent Night’


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


The better soda: latke or Christmas ham?


Not the typical Christmas dilemma


A modern-day Chanukah miracle along the Gaza border


The massive menorah and the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas tree’


‘Chanukah is not a celebration of multiculturalism or tolerance’


World Series of Dreidel spin-off


Hitchens: ‘To Hell with Hanukkah’


‘Merry Christmas’ runs contrary to Chanukah


Chanukah: The Not Christmas


Tod and God’s Chanukah adventure


Santa Claus, Harry Potter and Baby Jesus


Hamsters as symbols of anti-Semitism?


$100 Chanukah gelt box


Time to hang the Christmas lights


Say L’Chayim to 5768!


You get when you give

Kids

Curtain call; More holidays not on the calendar

Kids page.

Holidays not on the calendar


News from the hood, eruv in the air

Letters to the Editor

Santa Claus; Uri Geller; Jimmy Carter

Letters to the Editor

Saying ‘shalom’ to Santa Claus

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

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

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

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?

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?


Featured Stories

Food
Eating Bambi (recipe included)

Most of the anti-Semitic mail I get these days doesn't concern Israel, Hollywood or even the threat of a nuclear war in the Middle East -- it's about meat.

Music
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory

One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.

Torah Portion
How to comfort and be comforted

Parshat Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) God tells Moses that although he's faithfully led His people through the desert these past 40 years, and although the Jews are now standing at the very border of the Holy Land, Moses himself will never be allowed entry, and will die and

Religion
Randy Pausch’s last lecture links morality and purpose

"Brick walls are there for a reason," wrote the late Dr. Randy Pausch, author of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture."

Opinion
The Great Awakening

The Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will hold back-to-back public conversations this Saturday, Aug. 16, with the two presumptive presidential
candidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. The conversations, on the topic of "Compassion and Leadership," will be