Why Eating Chinese Food on Christmas is a Sacred Tradition for American Jews The Tablet reports that Brooklyn’s hip Mile End deli serves Chinese on Xmas. (Mitch Aidelbaum.) Excerpt: Jews are not outsiders anymore. It’s not only to Chinese people that we can seem, at times, like “just some big-[...]
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December 25th, 2014 - 2:22 am § in Misc.
A Jewish Deli in NY Serves Traditional Chinese Food on Christmas Day!.
TA Reveals: What Jesus looked like!
So, in 2013 FAUX’s Megan Kelley got her blond hair frizzy when she insisted that we know Jesus and Santa were white! TA has done the research!Jesus was yid .. like this kid yids in these vid(eo)s[...]
The Beginning of Winter Holidays Is Not a Happy Season for All
Muharram, a Muslim month devoted to mourning. Ashura, the tenth of the month, is a day of awe in Shi’a Islam, familiar in the west as scenes of self flagellation. In Shia Islam the month marks the schism from Sunni, when the Sunni caliph killed the last relative of the Prophet, Ali, and ended [...]
November 30th, 2013 - 10:23 am § in Religion
THE Ave Challenge: What is the Ashura, the Tenth Day of Muharram?
This is NOT a happy season for all! Muharram, a Muslim month. devoted to mourning. Ashura, the tenth of the month, is a day of awe in Shi’a Islam, familiar in the west as scenes of self flagellation. In Shia Islam the month marks the schism from Sunni, when the Sunni caliph killed the[...]
Need a Christmas Present? For $500 You Can Buy A Cloning Lab!
The quest for the $500 home molecular biology laboratory By John Brunstein, PhD ………. I recently set out on a quest to see whether a non-specialist, $500 complete molecular biology laboratory was possible. …….. The challenge I set for myself had a number of criteria: Tha[...]
December 25th, 2011 - 11:12 am § in Christianity, Misc.
Christmas in North Korea
from The Atlantic Before Kim Jong-il’s death, the last big story out of North Korea had to do with Christmas lights. “North Korea has warned South Korea of ‘unexpected consequences’ if it lights up a Christmas tree-shaped tower near their tense border,” the BBC reported[...]
December 6th, 2010 - 6:59 pm § in Christianity
My Birthday Falls on a A Catholic Festival Day:Jesus’s Bris!
Yes, it is true .. I am a New Year’s baby. It is a wonderful thing to celebrate my birth with 3 billion other humans! How many of them know WHY Jan. 1 is celebrated? In the Catholic Calendar of Saints this is the feast of the holy circumcision! Well it was on the calendar […][...]