Word: chanukah
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...would imagine a WASP Santa after your first few visits. A black Santa, or a Santa with a big nose and a Grand Concourse address just wouldn't have been satisfactory. And what if you were Jewish? Don't you wonder why this nice man missed Chanukah every year and then arrived on Christmas? Portnoy missed the point in his complaint...
...Dreams is an improvisational work in which the cast members disclose and interpret their dreams with a stylistic uniqueness that the Pageant Players have engineered, and the Chanukah play relates the Maccabis' struggles against the Greek occupation forces, which is seen as a parallel to the present conflict in Vietnam, reflecting also the role of the American resistance movement against...
...decided "would be considered irreverent and offensive by a large segment of our audience" during the week of the Eisenhower funeral. CBS specifically cited a parody sermonette by Religion Satirist David Steinberg (his final line: "Let's put Christ back into Christmas and 'ch' back into Chanukah"). But more likely the network objected to the show's running gags about John Pastore, the influential chairman and Mrs. Grundy of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. For example, Guest Dan Rowan of Laugh-In gave the Senator the "fickle-finger-of-fate award" for "keeping up the good work...
...CRIMSON received its annual shipment of fortune cookies from Sinkiang Province yesterday with a Happy Chanukah note attached. Sifting through the crumbs, the editors found these messages for the coming year...
...fatten their reserves by accepting U.S. deposits, mostly from immigrants with sentimental ties to the old country. They also have some novel ways of attracting U.S. customers. The Manhattan branch of the Israel Discount Bank, for example, offers its own version of the Christmas Club for savings-a Chanukah Club, tied to the Jewish Feast of Lights...