Happy Rosh Hashanah
Dip your apple in the honey. Happy New Year! Continue Reading →
Tag: holidays
O Scotia Tree
05 December 2005 By Nellie Day Charles Drummond of The Harvard Crimson reported on a unique event that encompasses an all-too-familiar controversy. The issue at hand: whether it is appropriate Continue Reading →
Forget Happy Holidays
01 December 2005 Sarah Price Brown: Everyone knows “happy holidays” means Merry Christmas and that the company “holiday party” is really a Christmas bash. So, why do we use these Continue Reading →
Birthdays, Etc.
Happy Birthday Jesus? Not to mention, Happy Wicca New Year and a Happy Bonded Dead Souls Temporarily Revived In the Shape of an Animal Day to you!
Wicca Wacka
Halloween… time to bake the challah. Keren Engelberg, a contributing writer for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, reports that some scholars suspect the Sabbath bread got its twists in pagan Continue Reading →
A Jewishy, Irishy, Yom Kippur Special
Years ago, Arthur Carter — publisher of The New York Observer, and, at the time, The Nation, for which I was then an intern — asked me what I was. “An employee?” I asked, Continue Reading →