By: Yael Toyber, SFU Student Content warning: descriptions of the Holocaust and antisemitism. My friends and I joke when explaining Jewish holidays to non-Jews: “We survived, and now we eat!” ...
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Jewish devotees of the New York Times ... that commercialization and assimilation have turned Hanukkah into as big a business as Christmas and craving the sense of inclusion that comes from ...
Comedian Elon Gold is gifting the Jewish Journal readers a last ... 2024 — or as Gold called it, “Eruv Christmas/Eruv Eruv Hanukkah.” ...
with 90% avoiding Christmas trees and most lighting Hanukkah candles, despite varied views on the Gaza war and personal security. Jewish Americans and supporters of Israel gather in solidarity ...
Jewish devotees of the New York Times ... that commercialization and assimilation have turned Hanukkah into as big a business as Christmas and craving the sense of inclusion that comes from ...
However, the first recorded references to Christmas predate Yule in Britain, and predate the arrival of St Augustine in England in the sixth century, so this theory does not make sense historically.
This year, because Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, arrived later than usual, I was able to wish people a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah on the same day. Since Jewish holidays use a lunar ...
"True, the Jewish authorities and those who ... had more than 100 comments — more than every Christmas post combined. Similarly, the Hanukkah post on X had more than 100 comments and 35,400 ...
And Hanukkah, with its rituals and creativity ... Straightforwardly coming to a Christmas gathering with Jewish visibility, clarifying, if needed, that there are numerous winter season ...
Hanukkah—also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew—is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light ...