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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 […]

black and white photo of a woman on stage with a microphone
Posted inComedy

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy marks 30 years of Jewish Christmas in S.F.

by Dan Pine November 29, 2022December 7, 2022
Brothers Esteban Hernández (left; photo/Erik Tomasson) and Isaac (right; photo/Stephen Texeira) are both appearing in "The Nutcracker" in San Francisco this year.
Posted inCulture

Raised in large Mexican Jewish family, these brothers are dancing together in S.F. Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’

by Stav Ziv November 23, 2022November 25, 2022
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
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inMixed & Matched

The kids are all grown up … and now I want Christmas!

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 10, 2022
A Christmas display at the entrance to the Tel Aviv flagship store of Tiv Ta’am, an Israeli supermarket chain known for selling non-kosher food. (Photo/JTA-Asaf Shalev)
Posted inNews

For a growing number of Jews in Israel, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
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
(Photo/Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Posted inUncategorized

Is the Christmas tree a religious symbol under the law? What about a menorah?

Michael A. Helfand by Michael A. Helfand and Forward December 15, 2021December 17, 2021
Shel Lyons, a parent at Carmel River School, is suing the school after it refused to allow an inflatable menorah (left) at an event centered around the school's "holiday tree" (right).
Posted inNews

A Carmel school refused to allow an inflatable menorah at a ‘holiday tree’ lighting. A Jewish parent filed a lawsuit.

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 14, 2021December 15, 2021

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