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Hanukkah is about happiness. The holiday’s customs promote joy in the form of sweet chocolate and oily latkes, while the Hanukkah story points to a spiritual element of human satisfaction—freedom.

“Who doesn’t love Hanukkah?” asked Jimmy Kimmel on his show Wednesday night.

This post has been updated to reflect Schmeltzer’s comments to Tablet.

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“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”

It’s the seminal line in Dirty Dancing, itself possibly the most seminal coming-of-age romantic dance movie-cum-social exploration of the mores of the post-War Jewish American upper middle class, ever committed to film. It’s spoken, of course, by the late, great Patrick Swayze, who plays a working-class dance instructor and dreamboat Johnny Castle (who, as you can probably tell, does not count himself among the various Sons of Israel working the dining rooms... Читать дальше...

What to do when a person running for high political office expresses views that strike most people as not only vile but fundamentally opposed to the essence of democracy?

I went to services on Yom Kippur for the first time in I-don’t-know-how-long. I wanted to attend Yizkor, the memorial service, to mourn for Ginger—my dachshund, who had died the previous night.

On the first night of Hanukkah, two disco balls rotated overhead, paying homage to the Festival of Lights in New York. Onstage at the Marlin Room in Webster Hall, the four members of rock band Bulletproof Stockings—Perl Wolfe on keyboard and vocals, Dalia Shusterman on drums, Dana Pestun on violin, and Elisheva Maister on cello—were dressed in attire befitting to their music: motorcycle jackets, worn-in Chucks, skirts and sheitels. The crowd—there to hear the band play their debut album, Homeland-Call-Stomp—whooped. Читать дальше...

The Internet is both one of the world’s greatest depositories of readily-available information, and also one of its least reliable. Finding answers to any question has never been easier, but determining whether those answers are trustworthy remains a challenge. Which is something a Reddit user discovered when he posed a simple question to the popular online community’s Jewish forum, r/Judaism. His query: Do Jews have trash cans?