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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?
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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
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