Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Hanukkah

Hanukkah stories: 3 news summaries
war on christmas

 Christian Group 
 Boycotts Gap 
 Over Holiday Ads 

Not enough Christ in Gap's Christmas: AFA

Nov 13, 09 2:15 PM CST
(Newser) - A Christian group has launched a boycott of the Gap over its religion-neutral holiday ads. The American Family Association, already ticked off by last year’s campaign, which wished consumers a “Merry Gap-mas,” hit the roof over this year's “Go Christmas, Go Hanukkah, Go Kwanzaa, Go Solstice.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
advertising • conservative • solstice • Christians • holiday • Christmas • The Gap • Hanukkah • war on christmas • American Family Association • Kwanzaa

There's No Right Way
to Spell This Word

Rabbis agree it doesn't matter

Dec 20, 08 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - There's definitely an “H,” an “N” and a “K” in there, but beyond that, spellings of the upcoming Jewish holiday differ significantly. Conservative rabbis tell the New York Post not to worry, though, because all English spellings all wrong. The correct one is in Hebrew.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Hanukkah • Jewish • chanukah • Hebrew

Just in Time for
Holidays: No Job

Families struggle to save traditions on Tiny Tim budgets

Nov 30, 08 5:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Few things ruin the holidays like losing a job. Yet that's what's happening to thousands of Americans just as they were planning to treat friends and families to gifts and holiday gatherings. The turnaround is excruciating as families struggle to save traditions on extremely tight budgets, reports the New York ... More »

MORE ABOUT:
big gifts • holiday • Christmas • school holidays • Hanukkah • gift • holiday depression • financial crisis • chanukah

3 Stories


from our news partners