(JTA) mash-up of Hanukkah and Christmas — to the country on the teen drama “The O.C.” In its ideal form, Chrismukkah combines all of the best parts of both holidays, from menorahs to Christmas lights and everything in between. Chrismukkah was “born in the writers room,” “The O.C.” creator Josh Schwartz told the Huffington Post,…
Two of Jerusalem’s chief rabbis have urged hotel owners in the holy city not to put up Christmas trees in their lobbies or to host New Year’s celebrations. “As the secular year ends we want to remind you that erecting a Christmas tree in a hotel contravenes Halacha [Jewish law] and that therefore it is…
“We’re going to start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” President-elect Donald Trump promised a cheering crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 9. “How about all those department stores?” he went on. “They have the bells and they have the red walls and they have the snow, but they don’t have ‘Merry Christmas.’ I think they’re…
We’ve compiled a list of 39 things to eat, watch, read and do on Chrismukkah. The only hard part now is choosing! Go out for (or make!) hot chocolate Get your sugar rush at one of these restaurants, cafes or bars open on December 24 and 25. • Try Max Brenner’s Pumpkin Spiced Mocha: hot chocolate…
You knew this was coming, we knew this was coming, and we’re sorry: this is your Hanukkah “Hamilton” parody roundup. As inevitable as overeating latkes at your family’s Hanukkah festivities or Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeting encouraging messages of nerdy optimism, it seems preordained that when Jewish a capella boy bands took on their annual task of…
December used to fill my parents with dread. My parents avoided taking us to malls in December, nervous that the amount of Christmas spirit would create confusion and discomfort for us as Jewish children with a (since converted) Christian mother. In her words, “The Christmas season is hard enough when your family is unambiguously Jewish;…
Eydie Gormé and the Trio Los Panchos — Navidad Means Christmas Steve Lawrence’s better half went south of the border for this festive 1966 collection of Spanish-language Christmas songs. David Grisman — Acoustic Christmas Folk/jazz mandolinist Grisman and his string band serve up swinging instrumental renditions of secular and traditional Christmas carols on this 1983…
The portmanteau word “Chrismukkah” might have been coined in the early aughts, but this is the first year in recent memory that the Christian and Jewish winter holidays perfectly align. The first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Eve, and by the time the final eight candles have dripped down the menorah branches, the ball…
ווען זי האָט געזונגען „אָטעם אַרײַן און אָטעם אַרויס“ אויף דער ייִדיש־וואָך אין אויגוסט איז דער עולם גאָר נתפּעל געוואָרן.
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