It may seem that people have always decorated their Christmas trees and the outside of their homes with lights, and the ...

At our house, we like holidays and attach ourselves to as many as we can. So when Hanukkah began on Christmas night and ...

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The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...

The practice of repetition, of centering on one verse, maybe even only one word (like “flame”), is an almost universal practice. By repeating a scripted word or sentence, we allow its message to ...

Hanukkah is not a holiday to sit all day in synagogue and pray. It’s more of a holiday to eat potato pancakes and jelly doughnuts, listen to comedian Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah song, light candles each ...

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Traditional Christmas carol WASHINGTON — Oh, the drama. The closing days of this Congress were a mad rush, more so than usual since the white mansion up Pennsylvania Avenue will soon change hands. The ...