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Merry December 25!
From Chinese food and movies to A Christmas Carol performance and a Yiddish-accented visit from St. Nick: Our collected coverage of Jews on Christmas
Life and Religion
Bring On the Plum Pudding, Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Christmas, by Ruth Franklin
Crispy Christmas, How one woman spends her holidays, by Vanessa Davis
Unholy Ghost, How I found myself onstage singing in A Christmas Carol, by Rachel Sugar
Jewish Christmas, Why Jews eat Chinese on December 25, and how a hip Brooklyn deli is modernizing that tradition, by Marc Tracy
‘Blade II’ and Fried Rice, Christmas Eve for those who have nowhere else to be, by Janice Erlbaum
Arts and Culture
My Yiddishe Santa, Cartoonist Milt Gross’s 1927 visit from a Yiddish-accented St. Nicholas, by Marissa Brostoff
Have Yourself a Jewish Little Christmas, The top 10 Christmas Songs written by Jews, by Marc Tracy
The Grinch and I, My unnerving identification with the cuddly curmudgeon, by Jerome E. Copulsky
Stop Snitchin’
Moses, the hero of this week’s parasha, had his own code of silence. Like every self-respecting rapper, he understood that squealing signals a breakdown of social cohesion.
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
- Katy Perry, The Bar Mitzvah DJ
- Spotlight On: Andrew Steinthal, Co-founder of ‘The Infatuation’
- Haim Rocks Out at Coachella
- Susan Sontag Documentary to Debut at the Tribeca Film Festival
