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Mini-Purim
Purim is exactly a month from today. This year in the Jewish calendar is a leap year, which means we ...
Movies for Tu Bishvat
Over at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog they have a list of movies to help you celebrate Tu Bishvat. Now, ...
Honi the Circle-Maker
It’s almost Tu Bishvat, the New Year of the Trees! Even though my friends in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia ...
A Different Night For LiLo
Hopefully, you’re like me and the first website you check in the morning is TMZ. You never know, something big ...
New Year’s Shabbat Ideas
Yesterday, I wrote about how much New Year’s Eve can suck when it falls on a Friday night. But instead ...
New Year’s On Shabbat
The solar system doesn’t want me to party. It doesn’t want you to party either. If it did, it would ...
The Jewish Santa
Christmas is a weird time of year for me. On the one hand, I truly and honestly do not care ...
My Forgotten Favorite
Do you ever pack the kids’ clothes, pack the stack of diapers, pack the toys and the toiletries and the ...
Nope, No Big Xmas Plans
Isn’t the holiday season wonderful? Don’t you just love the beauty of it all? Or actually don’t you secretly hate ...
Kosher for Festivus
I’ve celebrated Festivus before. I’ve done it all–the feats of strength; sat around a metal poll; aired my grievances. But ...
Post-Hanukkah Detox
Hanukkah is over, and much as I love a holiday that gives me an excuse to eat fried cheese, I ...
Eight Days of Videos–Colbert & Stewart
If you search online for pictures of Hanukkah candles, you get pristine photos of beautiful hanukkiyot and even more beautiful ...