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Breaking News Mensch on Bench Sells Fast as Hanukkah Nears
(Reuters) — The toymaker who funded his sold-out Mensch on a Bench toy through a Kickstarter campaign last year is ramping up production of the plaything in time for Hanukkah next week. A Jewish version of the wildly popular Christmas Elf on the Shelf toy, the doll and book set retells the Hanukkah story and…
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Life What Would Tevye Say (About Santa Claus)?
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman When a grown woman and her seventy-something mother engage in yearly debates about the existence of Santa, I think we can agree: there’s a problem. Of course, my mother believes the problem is mine, while I tag her as the source of the annual angst. But who’s telling this story? My…
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Opinion ‘A Split in the Jewish Soul’: Hanukkah Reconsidered
Hanukkah: A heartwarming story about Jew vs. Jew. Come again? Us against us? I thought it was Jew against Greek: Maccabee vs. Antiochus. Most of us grew up with the same idealized story: that Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the underdog-Maccabees in preserving our religion despite the callous Syrian-Greek attempt to quash all Jewish rituals….
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Opinion I’m Jewish and Greek. Who Do I Root for On Hanukkah?
Youth from Ioannina’s Greek community in traditional dress / Haaretz They’ve switched on the window displays on Fifth Avenue, and the trees are for sale on the street corners, so I know I’m about to get asked the question: Do I miss Christmas? It’s a common question for a convert. But, despite a childhood full…
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Food 8 Nights of Food Gifts: He’Brew Gift Pack
Photograph by Jon Wunder Gift No. 3 The holiday season is upon us, which for many means a time of social gatherings, family, friends and traditions both religious and secular. This time of year brings me back to my youth, when I believed December was the time the Jews celebrated Hanukkah as well as Passover…
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The Schmooze Even Joe Biden Can’t Screw This Up
Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch,…
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Food 8 Nights of Food Gifts: Olive Oil Offerings
For a slick Hanukkah gift, think oil. Sprayer and cruet images courtesy of Williams-Sonoma Gift No. 2 What would Hanukkah be without oil? A very sad celebration of dry doughnuts, tasteless latkes and darkness, I’m sure. This season, celebrate one of the eight days of light with the gift of oil — in three forms….
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Breaking News Hallmark Yanks ‘Swastika’-Themed Wrapping Paper
Hallmark Cards Inc, the purveyor of products that it says “make the world a more caring place,” was pulling gift wrap from U.S. stores after a complaint that the paper appears to display a swastika, a symbol associated with the persecution of Jews. Hallmark issued an apology on Tuesday and said that the blue and…
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