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Grinch knows better than to mess with Hanukkah

Let’s face it. Lots of Jews love Christmas. Not in the celebrate-the birthday-of-our-savior way.More in the pretty-lights, catchy-tunes, days-off-of-work, and ...

Light Your Hanukkiah in Solidarity Against Terrorism–Or, You Know, Because of Hanukkah

Several people have forwarded me this email in the past two days:Dear Friends, Last Shabbat, in my sermon, I offered ...

Oops: Hanukkah in the White House

For those who still care about dysfunction in the Bush White House, the President delivered a special, early Hanukkah Christmas ...

I Hate Thanksgiving

Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

2009 will rock

So it’s that time of the year when many people start buying calendars for next year. And some nice Jewish ...

What Happens Then?

Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...

Friday the 31st

It’s Halloween. Its Shabbas. What’s a good Jew to do?Hand out challah rolls? Dress as the Sabbath bride?JTA has an ...

Impurim

San Francisco, for all that city’s rent chaos and interweb madness, still has one of the most productive, experimental, and ...

Noah, Meet Youtube.

G-dcast has been going off the hook lately. First there was the wave of Jewish blogs raving, then the Gigaom ...

Healing Havdalah

What are you up to on November 8? Depending who you are, either celebrating, stewing, or plotting revenge against fraudulent ...

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