The Spouse Who Stole Christmas
It seemed like a fine idea. “Let’s not do Christmas this year,” my Protestant-born but non-practicing...
Put a Menorah on It
Last week, Linda K. Wertheimer wrote for the Huffington Post about how a local grocery chain warmed her heart...
Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories
Blessing
In Hebrew, a blessing is a Brachah. We say a Brachah before we light Shabbat candles, and before we eat or...
Christian Jewish Wedding, Dating, Engagement, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Relationships, Wedding Stories, Weddings
The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs (2012)
Introduction
From 2006-2009, I wrote an annually updated article for this site called “Jews who Wrote...
Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah Come Light the…Christmas Tree?
Saturday morning my family and I were at a children’s Shabbat service. Halfway through the service, our...
Trees Are Sensitive
For years now, synagogues and Jewish community centers have been offering “December Dilemma” programs....
Wreaths and Crowns, Christmas and Hanukkah
Beverly and I have been friends for more than 30 years. We met when our now 45 year old children were in the...
When is a Christmas Tree Just a Christmas Tree?
It’s interesting that so many in the Jewish community put an emphasis on Christmas. Specifically, whether...
A Christmas Tree is always a Christmas Tree, If You Want It To Be
So I just read the post from Benjamin Maron about “When is a Christmas Tree Just a Christmas Tree?” I can say...
Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories
A Holiday Disclosure
[b][i]This is a guest post by Dr. Steve Moffic (my father-in-law, a Milwaukee psychiatrist). It was originally...
Still Watching Hanukkah
In [url=/blog/iff/december-holidays/watching-hanukkah/]the last Hanukkah blog post[/url], I pointed out JWA’s...
Santa or Star of David?
I’ve been trying to figure out how to narrow down the eleventy-seven questions that run through my head...
Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Stories
How to Grandparent During December Holidays
“I go to Grandma and Grandpa Brown’s for Christmas, help trim the tree, sing carols and then get...
When is December Not A Dilemma?
As everyone who is reading this already knows, December is probably the most stressful/crazy/anxiety-ridden...
Christmukkah Redux
I’m going to jump into the whole Christmas/Hanukkah discussion with both feet and with some potentially...
Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Stories
Hi from Ethan and Mia
Welcome to all of our readers and thank you Benjamin for giving us this opportunity to share a little window...
Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting, Parenting Stories
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Christmas time in our family is spent with my in-laws. Church for a 4:30 p.m. mass on Christmas Eve and then...
The Christmas Compromise
Holidays combine religion and family at the gut level. Because they are filled with concrete symbols and rituals,...
Negotiating Christmas
392
A few months after my husband and I started dating, we had a discussion about religion over dinner....
Southern Comfort
21
They had me at ham.
As my first Christmas with my fiance’s Italian Catholic family approached,...
Food, Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Hanukkah Rituals, Relationship Challenges, Relationships
The Ghosts of Christmas Past
435
In the midst of packing up the apartment where I’ve lived for the past seven years, I found...
Book Review of Chrismukkah: Everything You Need to Know to Celebrate The Hybrid Holiday
Yikes–I thought we had disposed of this unappealing concept, first widely popularized in the television...
Giving Up Jewish Christmas
293
I am the Jew in my interfaith marriage. Both of my parents are Jewish. But when I think of the December...
Listing Holidays and Goals
Bryan and I have a couple of new tasks to take on this week, after our latest pre-marital counseling sessions...
Christian Jewish Wedding, Co-officiation, Hanukkah & Christmas, Officiant, Other Holidays, Wedding Planning, Weddings
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