Mixed Multitudes
The Joy of Hanukkah
JTA did all the work in finding this one, so they get the props for it. I’m very happy they ...
How to Write a Facebook Invitation
Tonight we’re having a rabbi from Israel speak at our place. My wife tasked me with writing the Facebook invite ...
Whisky Menorah
I customarily make a Hanukiyah out of beer bottles, as a kind of homage to the hipsters in my life. ...
New(ish) Hanukkah Songs and Videos
I think Christmas is to blame for all of the completely bizarre Hanukkah music out there. And this year you ...
Santa’s Jewish All-Star Dream Team
There’s a seasonal uproar about seasonal messages. In the gentile world, the debate rages: How early is too early to ...
The Miracle of The Wind-Powered Menorah
When Yeshiva University student Mark Stauber would walk down Amsterdam Avenue daily to go to class, his yarmulke would continuously ...
Neil Diamond Wishes You A Happy Hanukkah
At first, I wasn’t sure this was real. It was so insane to me that Neil Diamond would make this ...
The Act of Self-Translation
Michael Idov is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and the author of the novel Ground Up. He’ll be ...
Best of the Week
It’s the Best of the Week: Hanukkah Edition. It’s almost as good a name as Die Hard II: Die Harder. ...
There Really Was a Flood
This article from the BBC carefully avoids making any reference to the Bible. Still, sounds an awful lot like a ...