The game player is a part of a Christian group in post-Rapture New York. The player advances by converting individuals (such as Jews or Athiests) or by killing them when necessary. Hey, nothing makes a better stocking stuffer than a game that says conform or suffer the consequences.
Effective strategies Jews can use now to make Christmas a little less intrusive this year.
With Xmas falling on Shabbat this year, what will your celebration look like? (Your *shabbat* celebration, of course. Sheesh – what did you think I was getting at?)
My fellow Jews boast about responding to a salesperson’s “Merry Christmas” with “I’m Jewish.” It’s embarrassing. IT HAS TO STOP.
I circle around the room, thinking of The Gift of the Magi story by O. Henry and trying not to cast myself in an overly romanticized version of it (substituting holidays instead of gifts for the self-sacrificing lovers).
Chinese on Christmas: It’s what Jews do. But, some Asian restaurants in the Twin Cities didn’t get that memo, and not all of them are open Christmas Eve or Day. A lot, in fact, are not I found out. Here are a few places around town you can get your feast on:
Debating the merits of Hanukkah versus Christmas goes back for generations. In this holiday sound-off, we’ll look at the music, traditions, forced family interaction, and even the national uproar regarding retail signage.
Dear Shuli: I’m wondering how big of a faux pas it is to let my daughter wear her Christmas shirts to her Jewish daycare?
You know when you walk into a store, a movie theatre, a restaurant, a bus, really ANYWHERE anytime after Thanksgiving, and you buy your gift, movie ticket, meal, bus ticket and so on, you inevitably get wished a “Merry Christmas?” How do you feel about that? Warm and fuzzy or … not so much?
