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...going to move exams back to make life easier for people who celebrate Christmas, that's discriminating. Better move exams back to November to make Channukah free of worries. Better move them back to October to make Thanksgiving angst-free for secular types. Better move them back to May to make Arbor Day less nerve-wracking...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Examining the Schedule | 3/12/1986 | See Source »

...Kwanza is not religious in any sense," Hollingsworth said, adding that the festival is related to Thanksgiving not to Christmas or Channukah...

Author: By Edward Josephson, | Title: Dunster House Celebrates Kwanza Festival | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...Channukah, Jewish Feast of Lights, of Dedication, came again last week to remind devotees that a man's home is not only his castle but his temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddha Out | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...with nine sockets-eight in as straight array as a well drilled military squad, the ninth in the solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddha Out | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Channukah, a festival of gayety, rejoicing, blurs in the minds of U. S. children reared in Jewish faith because it occurs so close to Christmas. Christmas comes Dec. 25, Channukah the 25th of Kislew (Jewish calendar). At both, children are coddled, given presents. And both, curiously, merged centuries ago with heathen celebrations of the winter solstice, the turning of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddha Out | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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