Christmas

A possible misreading of precedent, and an assault on common sense.

Dec. 15 2021 12:01AM

Some reflections on how we Jews cope with the majority culture around us, provoked by Handel’s beautifully crafted 1741 oratorio.

Dec. 22 2020 12:01AM

“Silent night” and “My Yiddishe Mama.”

Ron Grossman
Dec. 26 2019 12:01AM

Together with traditions surrounding the solstice.

Itzik Gottesman
Dec. 20 2019 12:01AM

The Palestinian Christmas charade.

Bassam Tawil
Nov. 19 2019 12:01AM

It’s in his cultural DNA.

Thomas Balazs
Dec. 24 2018 12:01AM

For whatever reason, God made people in tribes and nations.

Jan. 4 2017 12:01AM

And peoplehood in general.

Jan. 5 2016 12:01AM

While Abbas cancels Christmas celebrations and blames Israel.

Bassam Tawil
Dec. 30 2015 12:01AM

A school district in Maryland recently decided to remove all references to religious holidays from its calendar, including those days on which there is no. . .

Nov. 14 2014 12:01AM

Every December, the PLO co-opts Jesus into the service of Palestinian nationalism, thereby denying both his Jewish credentials and the Muslim-inflicted suffering of Christians across the Middle East.

Petra Marquardt-Bigman
Dec. 25 2013 12:00AM

A recent book on the Jewish contribution to Christmas in America fails to grasp that in helping to secularize the holiday, Jews have promoted their own assimilation. (2012)

Ethan Schwartz
Dec. 25 2013 12:00AM