Hallmark’s latest Hanukkah movie is weirdly good
Except for the fact that it's a Nora Ephron knockoff
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Culture A Jewish guide to Christmas in New York
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Culture This new Hanukkah movie isn’t very deep, but you can’t say it isn’t very Jewish
'Menorah in the Middle' is cheesy and over the top, sure, but unlike many Hanukkah movies, the Jewishness feels authentic
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Culture When is Hanukkah 2022?
Hanukkah’s on the ‘late’ side this year. Find out when the holiday starts — and why the dates seem to move so much from year to year
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News Seeking kosher Chinese food in Atlanta? The answer is just off Christmas Lane — really.
In Atlanta, just off a road called Christmas Lane, a Kroger grocery store stands in the heart of Toco Hills, the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Inside the kosher supermarket, a small glatt kosher Chinese restaurant — Chai Peking — occupies a space of just 500 square feet. And around Yuletide, the traffic on Christmas…
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News What a Jewish editor can learn answering letters to Santa
Here’s what they don’t tell you about being Santa Claus: it can be heart-wrenching. Every year, the Boston Globe receives as many as 17,000-plus letters addressed to Santa Claus. This year, the paper put me, a Jewish journalist who was a reporter and editor there for 36 years, in charge of writing about them. “How…
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Culture Pee-wee Herman, a Hallmark Hanukkah and more movies to watch this Christmas
This year for sure, we all fervently hoped we would be able to return to the dim, dank and sticky sanctuary of our local multiplex and engage in that most hallowed Jewish custom: A movie on Christmas. Man plans, Hashem laughs. With a new, super-transmissible variant of the coronavirus rampaging through the world, many still…
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News He brought Hanukkah to a street famous for Christmas lights. Antisemitism followed — but so did joy.
It’s a holiday tradition in Baltimore: Visiting the Miracle on 34th Street, a city block where houses go all out with candy canes, rooftop Santas and life-size plastic elves and snowmen — except for one row house, where a seven-foot-tall inflatable polar bear spins a dreidel, and a silver LED menorah “burns” from Thanksgiving to…
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