This new Hanukkah movie isn’t very deep, but you can’t say it isn’t very Jewish
'Menorah in the Middle' is cheesy and over the top, sure, but unlike many Hanukkah movies, the Jewishness feels authentic
'Menorah in the Middle' is cheesy and over the top, sure, but unlike many Hanukkah movies, the Jewishness feels authentic
Hanukkah’s on the ‘late’ side this year. Find out when the holiday starts — and why the dates seem to move so much from year to year
In Atlanta, just off a road called Christmas Lane, a Kroger grocery store stands in the heart of Toco Hills, the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Inside the kosher supermarket, a small glatt kosher Chinese restaurant — Chai Peking — occupies a space of just 500 square feet. And around Yuletide, the traffic on Christmas…
Here’s what they don’t tell you about being Santa Claus: it can be heart-wrenching. Every year, the Boston Globe receives as many as 17,000-plus letters addressed to Santa Claus. This year, the paper put me, a Jewish journalist who was a reporter and editor there for 36 years, in charge of writing about them. “How…
This year for sure, we all fervently hoped we would be able to return to the dim, dank and sticky sanctuary of our local multiplex and engage in that most hallowed Jewish custom: A movie on Christmas. Man plans, Hashem laughs. With a new, super-transmissible variant of the coronavirus rampaging through the world, many still…
It’s a holiday tradition in Baltimore: Visiting the Miracle on 34th Street, a city block where houses go all out with candy canes, rooftop Santas and life-size plastic elves and snowmen — except for one row house, where a seven-foot-tall inflatable polar bear spins a dreidel, and a silver LED menorah “burns” from Thanksgiving to…
America in the midst of our holiday season — a time for family, rest and hotly contested litigation over religious displays on government property. For this year’s installment, we have a “tree lighting event” hosted by the Parent Teacher Association of the Carmel River Elementary School, a public school in Northern California. The event is…
As told to Nora Berman; edited for length and clarity The phone lit up with an unexpected text message: it was from a staff member at my daughter’s preschool. I was confused as to why they would be texting now, when the entire class was supposed to be in the middle of their holiday party….
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