MetaFilter posts tagged with chanukah

Dentō!

overeducated_alligator — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:21:06 -0800

Fiddler on the Roof, in Japanese. If I Were A Rich Man To Life! Matchmaker, Matchmaker Sunrise, Sunset Tevye's Dream Do You Love Me? Far From the Home I Love Happy Chanukah, everybody.

Chave a Chappy Chanuka!

Joe in Australia — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:57:10 -0800

Chanuka (which starts this Friday evening) is more than just the Dreidel Song. Listen to Maoz Tzur from the amazing NY PS 22 (prev iously) and watch the merry Al Qaeda Dancers or just click on the ~~irritating~~ very dedicated singing candles. (hattip: Harry's Place) P re vi ous ly.

I Have a Little Dreidl, I Learned to Make it Pay...

ubiquity — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:57:03 -0800

OK, everyone knows Chanukah overlaps Christmas this year (it starts this Sunday evening), but do you have your dreidel game going? If you are full of Maccabean mojo, you might want to try to win some gelt at Major League Dreidel, No Limit Texas Dreidel, or even The World Series of Dreidel ("a chai stakes tournament"). For those of you who will only be playing at home, but would like something more convenient than a physical dreidel, there is also Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel – for your chai-phone, of course!

The Golden Dreydl

halogen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:01:57 -0800

The Golden Dreydl (streaming audio): a wonderfully... different arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Sara is a little girl with a problem: She hates the annual family Chanukah party! But when a mysterious party guest gives her the gift of a golden dreydl, Sara is catapulted into a magical world of demons and fools, sorcerers and sages. It's a family entertainment featuring the music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ingeniously adapted by Shirim Klezmer Orchestra with an original story written and narrated by Sound & Spirit host Ellen Kushner.

tamim — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:29:01 -0800

Holiday season comes to all, including those without an Amazon wishlist. New York Cares has a Secret Santa program where volunteers pick up letter(s) from [a] child(ren) from homeless shelter(s) and buys them gifts requested in the letter(s). There is a similar program in Charlotte, N.C. The Chicago Bar Association co-ordinates one such program in Chicago with the USPS. Salvation Army runs the effort in Annapolis. While not quite giving toys, Canada Post organizes a letter from Santa program. I am sure there is something similar near where you live.

[As G-d/Allah would have it, this year both the eighth night of Chanukah and Eid-ul-Fitr, the feast celebrating the end of fasting during the month of Ramadan, will fall on December 16^th. An $18.00 gift can feed "a month's worth of nutritious lunches for an Ethiopian child in Israel." There are also other Israeli/Jewish charities. There are various Muslim charities and organizations that help the poor and war-torn Muslim women, children and orphans around the world.]