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How A Nice Jewish Boy Learned To Like Christmas ... Because Of Paganism

Jay Michaelson | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Chanukah, Hanukkah, Bible, Christmas Trees, Paganism, Christmas, Santa Claus, Kabbalah, Menorah, Easter Eggs, Menorah-Archaelogy, Asherah, Living News

While I'm still not a fan of endless C-major holiday songs and goyishe blinking lights, I have learned to make my peace with Chrismas - ironically, because of the same "paganism" that I once used to decry.

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Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Freedom-Tower-Construction, Kabul-Mayor, Rome, Maccabees, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Kabul, Story of Chanukah, Menorah, Afghanistan Corruption, Story-of-Chanukah, Antiochus, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Chanukah, Greece, Dead-or-Alive, Freedom Tower, Judah Maccabee, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan-Counterinsurgency, Orin Hatch, Orin Hatch Chanukah Song, Somalia, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hannukah, World News

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

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Caviar Latkes

Gerald Sindell | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Chanukah Gift, Chanukah, Caviar, Book Exchange, Potato-Latkes-Recipes, Hanukkah, Latkes, Menorah, Hanukkah Traditions, Books, Menorah Candles, Hanukkah Gifts, Books News

We had found it was getting increasingly difficult to get too worked up over Chanukah. We still wanted to do something for Chanukah but we also wanted it to be something that adults would enjoy.

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Archaeologists Find Early Menorah Depiction

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Menorah Archaelogy, Archaeologists, Early Menorah Depiction, Judaism, Jewish, Menorah Judaism, Israel, Menorah, Archaeology, Archaeological Dig, Israel Archaelogy, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to sy...

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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

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Menorah Musubi

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 01.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Milton Berle, Mel Brookes, Jesus, Woody Allen, Christmas, T.S. Elliot, Buddhist, Menorah, Spirituality, Jewish, Shikseh, Judaism, Buddhism, Holiday Season Commentary, Living News

Let's just say that I grew up thinking that while Jesus was a suffering member of my tribe I was not supposed to worship; Buddha taught us that "Life as we know it ultimately leads to suffering." You see, I couldn't win.

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Hanukkah: How to Celebrate (And Clean Up After) the Festival of Lights

Michael DeJong | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Hope and Change, Miracles, Rededication, Maccabees, Festival of Lights, Hannukah, Wax, Candles, Jewish Culture, Obama, Menorah, Green Living, Old Testament, Living News

Yes, Hanukkah candles drip. There are always distractions from every family ritual, but try to "be in the moment." Don't slip into "freak-out" mode just because something isn't going as planned.

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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

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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