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Happy Christmas!

Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas!

Art by the great Tomi Köves. You can purchase his art as prints, cards, bookmarks, mugs, magnets here. 

Few songs mean Christmas to me more than the carol, born out of the collaboration of a Catholic priest and a headmaster in rural Austria in 1818. Nearly 200 [...]

Chanukah Day 5

For those of you, ladies, who expressed your love for the Barenaked Ladies, here is one more song from their Barenaked for the Holidays album: Hanukkah Blessings. 

Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas (and whatever else is celebrated today–happy, happy day today)!

Jerusalem, the first night of Chanukah 5772

I was sure one of the many people videoing this would upload it to YouTube. I actually edited it down to a considerably shorter length, as I doubt most of yopu would care for over a minute of the chit chat between Mr. Skaat and his audience. [...]

Chanukah Day 3 – Light One Candle

Today’s song is “Light One Candle” by Peter, Paul and Mary.This song is a year younger than me. I grew up with it, listening to it a lot over the years. It has become one of my favourite songs to listen to during this season.

Chanukah Day 2

As most people know, Chanukah lasts 8 days. This year I’m going to post a song for each of those days. Yesterday was the blessings that we sing when lighting the candles, and today is a song by Matisyahu, “Miracle”.

“Bound to stumble and fall but my strength comes not from man at all

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Happy Chanukah!

Happy Chanukah!

The first song that Harel as a child sang translates as: I have a candle, I have a small thin candle On Chanukah, my candle I will light. On Chanukah my candle will glow On Chanukah I will sing songs. The three blessings translate as: Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, [...]

Get Ready for Christmas and/or Chanukah! – a post with lots of links!

So it’s now Advent. There is a little more than 2 weeks left till Chanukah, and three weeks left till Christmas. So I’m going to help you with getting ready for the holiday of your choice.Be careful, this will be long!

First of all, I’d like to recommend Christie Minich’s Christmas posts! Their many Christmas [...]

I’m Easy To Shop For

As everyone knows, Chanukah is coming up in like 7 weeks. I’ve already started Chanukah shopping, and it seems so did my family. On Wednesday, before I was leaving home my phone rang. It was my dad, who lives here in Tel Aviv, letting me know he got me my Chanukah gift, but then he [...]