My Chanukah miracle: producing the musical presentation for the 2008 White House Chanukah celebration -- in eight days.
David Suissa | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
What worries me most is not that we will see more Madoff-level crimes of betrayal in our community, but that we so easily ignore the millions of little offenses we regularly inflict on each other.
AP | Posted 12.25.2008 | Home
WOODMERE, N.Y. — A car slammed into a building where Orthodox Jewish families were celebrating Hanukkah on Thursday, injuring 14 people, police ...
Mort Gerberg | Posted 12.25.2008 | Style
Michael Russnow | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
Why should Jews be any more surprised that one of their own is less than honorable? Are we not subject to the same failings of other humans?
Erica Jong | Posted 12.24.2008 | Living
How sober we are today. American Christmases used to be intemperate. Where are the stolen kisses, the bluesy music and the feeling of anything goes (as Cole Porter wrote)?
Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 12.24.2008 | Living
As Christmas and Chanukah represent ideals that have been distorted over the years, it is our job to stay true to these ideals and challenge the distortions, even while celebrating the moments of hope.
Giles Slade | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
Here, at the end of the Bush years, the bottom has suddenly dropped out of the world and Americans are in mid-fall, struggling to stay upright and wondering when it will end.
Mort Gerberg | Posted 12.21.2008 | Style
One For The Table | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style
Sunday is the first day of Hannukah and we know you can buy latkes at the deli, but we always like to make our own.
Jessica Jensen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green
Chanukah starts Sunday December 21 this year. Just as we encourage everyone to incorporate eco-smart ideas and green gifts into their Christmas plans,...
Samara O'Shea | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style
Christmas is all about faith, love, and joy -- not bad entities at all but a tall order to express -- whereas the New Year encompasses fresh beginnings and hope.
Lea Lane | Posted 12.18.2008 | Living
Even though I'm Jewish, when I was a kid my family double-dipped. We had a miniature plastic tree hidden in a corner with blue and red balls and a few presents below.
David Wild | Posted 12.17.2008 | Style
Gelt: In many ways, cash remains the perfect guilt-inducing gift item -- especially in this post-Madoff era.
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 12.16.2008 | Style
Who says Jews can't adapt the customs of their surrounding communities without surrendering their Jewish identities? After all, we've been doing it for thousands of years.
Eric Lurio | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living
I guess it was inevitable that Chanukah would become "Christmas Lite," and did so years ago. For much of the last century, Chanukah is a festival that exists out of envy, like Kwanzaa.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living
Holiday compassion, which most of us value but seldom practice, is the opposite of holiday commercialism, which most of us practice but never value.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 12.03.2008 | Green
Recycling wrapping paper and cards can drastically reduce your holiday waste and generate a big dose of nostalgia.
Guardian.co.uk | Andrew Shanahan | Posted 12.12.2007 | Living
December 25 isn't just for carnivores ... Three cooks share their recipes for delicious meat-free Yuletide feasts with Andrew Shanahan For more hol...
Tony Sachs | Posted 12.10.2007 | Living
I'm amazed that none of our parents complained that the school was trying to turn their children into godless, fire-worshiping heathens. I suppose bowing down to the gods of flame one day a year didn't adversely affect a Harvard application.
New York Times | JULIE SCELFO | Posted 12.06.2007 | Living
WHEN her sons were toddlers, Amy Manata, a Jewish woman with a Catholic husband, began conducting a silent war. In the months leading up to Hanukkah, ...
Bruce Feiler | Posted 12.05.2007 | Living
Come on, people, where is the anger!?! Hanukkah is destroying our planet.
Giulia Rozzi | Posted 12.04.2007 | Living
Do I or don't I send out Holiday cards? I know, I know, it's a difficult decision. I mean, all that writing. All those stamps. All that envelope licking.
Daniel Radosh | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media
Christopher Hitchens spreads a little holiday cheer today with an essay denouncing Hanukkah. Like all Hitchens' work on religion, it's smart, witty and totally frustrating.
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Jordan B. Gorfinkel | Posted 12.29.2008 | Living