Archive for the 'Hanukkah' Category

Jewish Community Celebrates First Night of Hanukkah

Today is the first full day of Hanukkah, an eight-day Jewish holiday celebrated around the world. As a small gift for GalleyCat readers, we've collected three free Hanukkah-themed eBooks–great reading for everybody in your Conan O'Brien celebrates Hanukkah by lighting the "Human Centipede" menorah. Today is the first full day of Hanukkah, an eight-day Jewish [...]

Finding reason in the season

I see Whole Foods has a Hanukkah display. A whole display for Hanukkah! Change has come to America. Whole Foods: They've gone crackers over Hanukkah. (Jessica Goldstein/The Washington Post) And then I see the classic supermarket screw-up: Whole Foods Rabbi Yehuda Kantor of Chabad Lubavitch of Westport on Tuesday lights the center candle on a [...]

Celebrating Hanukkah: Parents: Festival of Lights not always easy for young …

By Aimee Neistat Tags: Jewish World Some 1500 Jews attended a candle-lighting ceremony at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate Tuesday night, to commemorate the first of eight nights of Hanukkah, according to the Chabad Movement. According to Chabad, as they Happy Hanukkah! Newt Gingrich meets Raylan Givens · WI Supreme Court Justice Voted with Law Firm that [...]

Hanukkah Boosters Light a Fire Under Holiday

Over the course of the eight days of Hanukkah, I'd rather make homemade applesauce and that meat dish beloved to frugal winter cooks everywhere, long-simmering brisket. (This recipe appeals to all religions. My Irish Catholic stepfather loves it with Over the course of the eight days of Hanukkah, I'd rather make homemade applesauce and that [...]

Hanukkah Boosters Light a Fire Under Holiday

The making of craptastic Christmas paraphernalia has become something of a cottage industry, but it's not just Christians who have questionable taste. Happy Hanukkah! The making of craptastic Christmas paraphernalia has become something of a cottage industry, but it's not just Christians who have questionable taste. Happy Hanukkah! The making of craptastic Christmas paraphernalia has [...]