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Chanukah in Israel: Sufganiyot on the streets, burning lights and family fun
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2011
They\’re making sufganiyot on the streets of Israel; Chanukah must be near.
There is more going on than just a ceremony and a party
Matt Lipeles
July 13, 2007
So while my brother got punched out at his bar mitzvah — by me — this other kid met God. Of course, some kids start getting into trouble at this age, while others really start to excel as students.
Rite of passage is not a free pass
Rabbi Jan Katzew
March 9, 2007
\”Keeping Up With the Steins\” is an unlikely candidate for an Academy Award, but it has served a purpose if it causes us to pause and consider the cultural phenomenon that prompted its production and distribution.
At Party Time: Candy is dandy — charity is sweeter
Sharon Duke Estroff
January 11, 2007
As my son\’s bar mitzvah day inched closer, I began to see the world in a whole different light — a disco ball light, to be exact — for as my child grew, so did his friends, officially putting us both on the b\’nai mitzvah circuit.
‘Yippee’ — Paul Mazursky documents Chasids gone wild
Tom Tugend
January 11, 2007
\”Jews are not cultured people,\” she complains. The other woman disagrees.\n\n\”They are cultured,\” she insists, \”they are just different.\”
A wish list of guilty pleasures and goofy gifts
Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
December 7, 2006
We\’ve all been there.
You go to the store, turn on the TV or pick up a catalogue and see something incredibly silly that you never in a million years would buy for yourself (it\’s also called a \”guilty pleasure\”). But you can always say you are buying it for someone else. So in the grand tradition of the Pet Rock, the Moses action figure and the snow cone machine, The Journal presents the Chanukah gifts you really want but won\’t admit it.
Originality trumps repetition in the holiday songs battle
George Robinson
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.
Live in the ‘hood: lingering Shabbat
David Suissa
October 26, 2006
Understanding the unique power of Shabbat. Shabbat does not just come and go every week. In fact, it never really goes away.
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