Let’s all eat trafe for Chanukah! NancyKay Shapiro A holiday scene: The Place: Balducci’s, Dec. 2nd, 2007 | 10:53 am. Personae: Me, shopping for low-carb food. Action: I’m sort of staring at the meat display, lots of salamis and sausages, and then various hams. And the hams’ [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hannukah’
December 24th, 2014 - 12:33 am § in Misc.
Havimas falls on the last night of Hannukah and Christmas Eve
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December 17th, 2014 - 10:52 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS! Obama Moves Toward Normalizing Relations With Cuba
The U.S. today exchanged 3 Cuban intelligence agents held since the 1990s for American government contractor Alan Gross, imprisoned in Cuba since 2009, and an unnamed “U.S. intelligence asset” an administration source said has been imprisoned in Cuba for more than 20 years, but President[...]
Hannukah 5775: Status of Antisemitism
‘I was at the anti-Semitism rally. Now what?’ Berlin writer Donna Swarthout was frustrated by the lack of enthusiasm of Jewish groups at September’s landmark anti-Semitism rally in Berlin. She sees the Berliner Juden as focused on the past, acting like a persecuted minority[...]
December 1st, 2013 - 9:44 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: On Hannukah, … a TRUE eternal light.
Woodstock, NY – A Jewish group in Woodstock, N.Y. is trading its candles for solar energy with a sun-powered Hanukkah menorah. Rabbi Avroham Itkin tells the Daily Freeman newspaper the idea came about because there is no electricity at the site where the Chabad of Ulster County sets up its out[...]
Hannukah, White House Style
President Barack Obama looks on at right as Rabbi Larry Bazer, Joint Forces Chaplain for the Massachusetts National Guard, lights a Menorah during the Hanukkah reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)[...]
Happy Hannukah
Rube Goldberg Machine Lights the Menorah[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Hannukah
“We were sitting at an [American] Hanukkah party and looking at how crazy it is,” In Israel, “it’s a minor holiday ” ,.. Israeli economics professor This year Hanukkah begins in the evening of Wednesday, November 27, 2013, and ends in the evening of Thursday, December 5, 2013.[...]
November 29th, 2013 - 12:31 pm § in The Ave Scene
BARGAINS: awesomeness Hauunukah Gift from Microsoft
Surface RT Tablet (32GB) for $169.99 shipped. with keyboard-enhanced Touch Cover for $39.99 (just scroll down ). full one-year warranty. Awfully tempting![...]