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Christmas

There are two Chinese joints around the corner from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland! (Thomas Hawk via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inFilm

Chinese food and a movie on Christmas? Here are our Bay Area recs

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 18, 2025December 18, 2025

It is one of the joyful oddities of American Jewish life that we’ve turned the act of eating Chinese food and seeing a movie into a Christmas tradition, a magical […]

(Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

What my relatives’ Christmas celebrations taught me about observing Hanukkah

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen December 24, 2024December 24, 2024
All Americans do Easter, right? .... Right? (Photo/piqsels.com)
Posted inJewish Life

Christmas and Easter are American holidays — aren’t they?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler March 15, 2022
San Francisco's Chinatown in 1965. (Photo/Flickr-Roger W CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inHistory

Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
"Santa Inc.," an eight-episode series on HBO Max, features the voices of Jewish comedians Sarah Silverman, as elf Candy Small (left) and Seth Rogen as Santa.
Posted inTV & Film

Silverman and Rogen’s ‘Santa Inc.’ brings raunch and activism to Christmas

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz December 16, 2021December 20, 2021
Scholar, blues guitarist and cantorial scion Jeremiah Lockwood's new album is “A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Hanukkah Album.”
Posted inMusic

Jeremiah Lockwood’s new ‘Great Miracle’ album embraces Hanukkah nostalgia, sans shlock

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 5, 2021December 3, 2025
Screenshot from a KPIX segment on the donation.
Posted inPhilanthropy

East Bay synagogues donate 232,000 meals to food bank

by J. Staff December 24, 2020December 24, 2020
(Illustration/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inHolidays

My Jewish family has spent every Christmas with our close Catholic friends since 1966

Sarah Jae Leiber by Sarah Jae Leiber and JTA December 23, 2020December 28, 2020
Bonbons from Delphinium. (Photo/Courtesy Delphinium)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Turkish-trained pastry chef Sasha Yilmaz-Ward’s pandemic plan: stay in the kitchen and make bonbons

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
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Posted inHolidays

Objections to my advice for a son who doesn’t want to do Christmas

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler December 22, 2020

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