hanukkah
Gifts of Frankincense and Myrrh (and Guac): How to Get Guests to Stock Your Holiday Party
Caity Weaver · 12/18/12 02:30PMA Hangover with Kathie Lee, a Real Life Fan Fic with Ryan Lochte, A Note from Charlize: The Best Celebrity Auction Prizes
Caity Weaver · 12/13/12 03:00PMThe best thing about celebrities is that as long as at some point some charity somewhere gets money, they can still be bought and sold like common chattel. This is especially convenient around the holidays, when the awkward rich, flush with cash and scant of social skills, start itching to give one another elaborate gifts.
Which Hanukkah Article from The New York Times Will Your Mom Email You?
MTanzer · 12/09/12 11:37AMThe New York Times' list of most emailed stories is the Times' favorite barometer for what's buzzing on the web. Certain things always seem to float to the top of the list, no matter if the content in the articles is actually good or not: all of Maureen Dowd's columns, stuff about summer camp, and anything that has to do with being Jewish.
"Chag Sameach:" Barack Obama Plagiarized his Hanukkah Statement from Previous Holiday Greetings
MTanzer · 12/08/12 02:09PMIsraeli Army Celebrates Hanukkah by Photoshopping the Dome of the Rock Into Oblivion
John Cook · 01/05/12 02:02PMTo commemorate Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday honoring the forced circumcision of lapsed Jews 2,200 years ago by a religious zealot (among other things!), the Israeli Defense Forces issued a little pamphlet for the troops featuring a photograph of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site. One pesky problem: Just a few hundred yards from the Wall, and visible in the photograph, sits the Dome of the Rock, one of the holiest sites in Islam. Enter Photoshop!
How to Choose a Wine for the Holidays
Max Read · 12/23/11 11:26AMNational Menorah Vastly Overcompensating For Something
Seth Abramovitch · 12/21/11 12:16AMHappy Hanukkah, to one and all! Sorry — I mean happy holidays. Actually, no I don't. I mean Happy Hanukkah! Let your Heeb flag fly! Gorge on gelt! Lose it on latkes! Spin a dreidel once, watch it fall over, get bored, and go open a present! Hanukkah comes but once a year, and lasts a fleeting eight nights, so best to enjoy it while it's here. The annual lighting of the National Menorah took place on the White House Ellipse on Tuesday evening, with first-night torchbearing duties bestowed upon none other than Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, Jacob J. Lew. Way to count those pennies for America, Jacob Jew! I mean Lew! I mean — wait, that came out totally wrong. Wow, would you look at that gigantic menorah! That's one big menorah. Don't think I've ever seen one that big. Yup. Real big ceremonial candelabra they're oilin' up over there. Real big. [Washington Post, Photo via AP]
Top Five Gifts Under Five Cents
Adrian Chen · 12/08/11 03:30PMGifts for People You Hate
Maureen O'Connor · 12/05/11 02:45PMWelcome to Gift Guide Week at Gawker, where we instruct on how best to fritter away your hard-won dollars on meaningless tokens of consumerism, because a bastard baby was born in a pile of hay on a clear night 2000 years ago. Let's start with the people you want to cross off your shopping list: people you hate.
Stephen Colbert Takes on 'Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing' Vodka Billboard
Matt Cherette · 11/30/11 04:09AMLast week, a billboard touting Wodka brand vodka's winning combination of "Christmas Quality" and "Hanukkah Pricing" appeared over Manhattan, only to be taken down less than 24 hours later. On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert went the unexpected route and actually decried the advertisement's offensiveness—but not for the reasons you'd expect.
The 'Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing' Vodka Billboard Is Dead
Lauri Apple · 11/23/11 05:58AMLess than 24 hours after making its debut alongside a Manhattan highway, Wodka vodka's anti-Semiticky billboard has been pulled down and converted into a "crumpled heap near the road," the New York Times reports. Now how will sophisticated dogs learn about America's hottest cheap-as-the-Jews spirit?
Vodka Billboard: 'Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing'
Hamilton Nolan · 11/22/11 01:01PMAn alert reader sends us this photo of a Wodka™ brand Vodka billboard located on the West side of Manhattan, overlooking Riverside Drive. "CHRISTMAS QUALITY. HANUKKAH PRICING," it says. And there's a Santa dog, representing Christian quality, and a Jew dog, representing Hanukkah pricing, because the Jews are cheap—like Wodka™!
The Ominous Return of Dane Cook
Richard Lawson · 09/28/11 04:22PMWatch Rick Perry Dance With Some Rabbis
Max Read · 09/25/11 03:23PMWhat has your life been missing, up until this point? A man who appreciates you for you, yes, that's one thing; but also, this video, uncovered by Politico's Maggie Haberman: Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, the goy-est of the goy, dancing with a bunch of Texas Rabbis at a hanukkah celebration last year.
A New Hanukkah Classic
Annie Fleming · 12/04/10 11:40AMJust in time for Hanukkah, the video that's been burning up the interwebs: a capella group The Maccabeats sing about flipping latkes in the air to the tune of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite."