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The Gift that Pays Dividends in This Economic Recession

Terry Real | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Lose Weight, Spouse, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Economy, Homewo, Tips for Holiday Season, Sex Life, Recession, Dividends, Holiday Gifts, The Spirit of Christmas, Marriage, Economic Recession, Christmas Gifts, Good Christmas Gifts for Significant Others, Stocking Stuffers, Family, Chanukkah, Living News
Terry Real

I have to confess, I feel a kind of relief. We don't have to worry about keeping up with the Jones', because the Jones' are doing just as bad as we are.

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Madoff's Redemption

David Suissa | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Jewish Community, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Living News
David Suissa

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.

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Car Crashes Into Hanukkah Party In New York, Injuring 14

AP | Posted 01.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Hanukkah Party Crash, Hanukkah Party, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Home News

WOODMERE, N.Y. — A car slammed into a building where Orthodox Jewish families were celebrating Hanukkah on Thursday, injuring 14 people, police ...

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Out of Line: Recession Hanukkah

Mort Gerberg | Posted 01.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Holidays, Cartoons, Channukah, Hanukkah, Cheap, Holiday Season, Money, Humor, Holiday Season Commentary, Menorah, Saving Money, Lighting Candles, Recession, Religion, Chanukah, Out of Line, Hannukah, Candles, Cartoon, Style News
Mort Gerberg

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What Happened to Kwanzaa?

Joshua Neuman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Kwanzaa, Consumerism, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Christmas, Holiday Season Commentary, Business News
Joshua Neuman

Whether it's gone because nobody knew how to sell it, or because nobody wanted to buy it, Kwanzaa is now nowhere to be found.

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Hanukkah Receives Pop Welcome From Matisyahu And A Mirrored Dreidel

New York Times | Posted 01.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Matisyahu, Hanukkah, Music, Entertainment News

Matisyahu deployed what may be the only large, mirrored, rotating dreidel in show business -- a Jewish answer to a disco ball -- at Webster Hall on Su...

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Free Fall: December 2008.

Giles Slade | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Madoff, Recession 2008, The Internet, Economic Bloggers, Hanukkah, Holiday Shopping, Blagojevich, Selling Senate Seat, Economic Crisis, Holiday Season Commentary, Production, Merry Christmas, Christmas Commentary, Recession, Layoffs, Chanukah, Job Cuts, Economic Free Fall, Political Bloggers, Recession Fears, Political Corruption, Financial Crisis, Political Bribes, Financial Corruption, Holiday Sales, Business News
Giles Slade

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.

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Religious Enough for You? Women Light the Holiday Fires

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Synagogue, Church, Jewish Women Catholic Women, Hanukkah, Muslim Women, Nuns, Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI, Living News
Leora Tanenbaum

When families light Hanukkah candles this evening, will the women light too? Jewish, Christian and Muslim women assume that that they're forbidden from leadership roles, when they are not.

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Latkes Extravaganza

One For The Table | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Holiday Traditions, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Potato Latkes Recipes, Traditional Holiday Foods, Homemade Latkes, Home-Made Latkes, Homemade Food, Holiday Recipes, Hanukkah Latkes, Style News
One For The Table

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.

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New Year's Cards Are the New Christmas Cards

Samara O'Shea | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, 2008, Cards, Gifts, Missives, 2009, Channukah, Chanukah, Hannukah, Greeting Cards, Holiday Cards, Style News
Samara O'Shea

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.

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Five Last-Minute Hannukah Gift Ideas from a Real Live Jew: Helping the Chosen People Choose A Little More Wisely

David Wild | Posted 01.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Holidays, Chanukah Gift, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Stock, Holiday Gifts, Style News
David Wild

Gelt: In many ways, cash remains the perfect guilt-inducing gift item -- especially in this post-Madoff era.

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The War Against Getting Along

Lisa and Michael Littman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Merry Christmas, Religious Tolerance, Happy Holidays, War on Christmas, Hanukkah, Christmas, Living News
Lisa and Michael Littman

Separation of church and state is what allows us to live together. It is not anti-religious -- it is pro-getting along and pro-protecting all religious groups.

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Guilt, Gelt, and The Gift of Giving

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Holiday Shopping, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Christmas, Presents, Ornaments, Story of Chanukah, Christianity, Menorah, Christmas Shopping, Jews, Judaism, Jewish Culture, Religion and Values, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

Holiday compassion, which most of us value but seldom practice, is the opposite of holiday commercialism, which most of us practice but never value.

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Holiday Food Faux Pas -- And How to Avoid Them

Laura Weiss | Posted 01.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Christmas, Fruitcake, Food, Holidays, Hanukkah, Obama, Latkes, Economic Meltdown, Great Depression, Social Faux Pas, Holiday Foods, Food Banks, Charity, Traditional Holiday Foods, Recession, Food Traditions, Volunteering, Economic Woes, Financial Crisis, Style News
Laura Weiss

While over-the-top foods may be out this year, there are some simple culinary steps you can take to avoid striking the wrong note during the upcoming holidays.

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Four Christmases: The Humiliation of Explaining Your Unemployment Around the Holiday Table

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Kwanzaa, Fired, Holidays, Hanukkah, Downsizing, Economy, Four Christmases, Jobs, Buyout, Pink Slip, Layoffs, Unemployment, Viscusi, Christmas, Starbucks, Careers, Resumes, Family, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

Can you imagine having to explain that you're unemployed to the people you see only once a year?

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Merry Hanukkah, George. Happy Thanksgiving. Now, Would You Please Leave?

Art Brodsky | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Hanukkah, Barack Obama, Thanksgiving, George W. Bush, Politics News
Art Brodsky

The White House put a picture of a sled bringing in the Christmas Tree on the cover of a card to Joe Lieberman that was supposed to celebrate Hanukkah. Do you suppose they could all just leave early?

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Life Cycle: Burn, Baby, Burn (The Eco Impact of Candles)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead, Honey, Wax, Mango, Green, Emissions, DéCor, Wick, Soy, Green Living, Carbon, Life Cycle, Fossil Fuels, Fragrance, Beeswax, New Scientist Magazine, Burn, Sarah Smarsh, Wine, Air Pollution, Paraffin, Tea, Shoulder Rub, Pier 1, Petroleum, Crude Oil, French Vanilla, Hanukkah, Romance, Sex, Environment, Candles, Toxicity, Simran Sethi, Fragrance-Free, Green News
Simran Sethi

Most candles are made from paraffin wax, which is derived from crude oil. Demand for these products plays into our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Tips For A Meat-Free Holiday Dinner

Guardian.co.uk | Andrew Shanahan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Hanukkah, Chanukah, Cooking Recipes, Christmas Recipes, Recipes, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Christmas Cooking, Living News

December 25 isn't just for carnivores ... Three cooks share their recipes for delicious meat-free Yuletide feasts with Andrew Shanahan For more hol...

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Intelligent Giving

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Microloans, Hanukkah, Co-Op America, Holiday Season, The Social Investment Forum Foundation, Donating to Charity, Changemaker Programs, Ashoka, Premal Shah, Charities, Socially Responsible Funds, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Christmas, Microlending, Giving, Social Entrepreunership, Bill Drayton, The Giving Life, Living News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Teaching one's children early on about giving intelligently is at least as important as what one learns at school. Social Entrepreneurship programs around the world have helped create a snow-ball effect.

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When Jews And Christians Share A Home And A Holiday Season

New York Times | JULIE SCELFO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Hanukkah, Chanukah, Christmas, Tips for Holiday Season, Living News

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, ...

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Bah, Hitchens

Daniel Radosh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Jews, Religion, Hanukkah, Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Chanukah, God Is Not Great, Judaism, Story of Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Christopher Hitchens Hanukkah, Story of Chanukah, Media News
Daniel Radosh

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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Should We Cancel Christmas?

Ode Magazine | Jay Walljasper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Hanukkah, Chanukah, Preparing for the Holidays, Mind.Body.Soul, Cancel Christmas, Tips for Holiday Season, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

This piece was originally posted at Ode Magazine. Christmas was outlawed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681. Anyone caught cele...

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Booze It Up... And Four Other Ways To Go Green This Season

Danny Seo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Preparing for the Holiday Season, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Green Holiday, The Green Life, Christmas, Tips for Holiday Season, Going Green, Holiday Shopping Season, Green Living, Danny Seo, Living News
Danny Seo

There's so much talk right now about having a green Christmas. There's one camp that says don't buy anything, skip the malls, forget presents. Bah-H...

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How To Survive The Holidays Like A Hot Chick

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Christmas, The Full Life, How to Survive the Holiday Season, Tips for the Holiday Season, Holiday Season, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hot Chicks, Holiday Diet, Living News
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent

Many of you Hot Chicks think that if you don't bestow a fruitcake and tree shaped sugar cookies to all of your friends and co-workers in December then you are a failure who might as well go back to woman school. But ladies, that's not true.

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