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...underwhelming musical quality of the goofy ditty was beside the point. But the media attention the song received - an actor celebrating Hanukkah? - paved the way for more writers and artists to be loud and proud about their Jewishness. A couple of years later, the humorously juvenile Comedy Central series South Park weighed in with an episode in which Kyle Broflovski, a Jewish kid exasperated by the holiday season, singing "A Jew on Christmas." "I'm a Jew, a lonely Jew, I'd be merry, but I'm Hebrew, on Christmas... Hanukkah is nice but why is it that Santa passes...
Cure your post-holiday blues with the hotel's "Stay Merry" package, which includes skating at Rockefeller Center, a carriage ride through Central Park, with a boxed lunch from the hotel restaurant, hot toddies when you return and dessert by your bedside. It costs $750 for two for two nights, Jan. 2 to March 31. 157 West 47th Street, New York City; 866-950-7829 (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...weekend face-off sets the top comedy star of the '90s against the top action and drama star of the last decade. Industry handicappers are predicting that Carrey, with a familiar role in an easy-to-sell story, will score a box office win over Smith, whose movie's central and unrevealable plot twists make it a challenge to describe. (They're saying it could be Smith's first film since the 2001 Ali not to break $100 million domestic.) But both films play to their stars' acting strengths, which means that you will probably laugh along with...
...negotiate peace treaties among factions inside the country. Claiming that Yusuf had no authority to fire Hussein, Somalia's parliament and neighboring Kenya have rallied to Hussein's side, while a defiant Yusuf announced he is appointing a new Prime Minister. The power struggle belies the fact that the central government controls only a tiny slice of the country. Warlords, Islamists and the pirates of the Somali coast increasingly hold sway, as violence and malnutrition plunge the country deeper into lawlessness and despair...
Christmas Eve will mean a lump of coal for senior citizens who use the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center. The Central Square-based health facility, operated by the Cambridge Health Alliance, will close that day. In public meetings, the CHA has cited ongoing budget problems and the inefficiency of operating the center as reasons for shutting the center’s doors. While patients and other residents have said they are upset that the center will be closing, some said that it will not negatively affect their health care. “I have the best of care here...