What Boston really needs to be world class: The world's largest dreidel

By adamg - 11/30/10 - 11:26 pm

Artist's rendering

Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel

By adamg - 11/29/10 - 4:30 pm

Need an alternative to WODS and WROR? WUMB is streaming Chanukah music 24/7.

Chanukah: The rest of the story

By adamg - 12/15/09 - 3:02 pm

DSG is slowly unraveling the history of the holiday. For example, not all the Maccabees were heroic swordsman kicking Greco-Syrian butt:

Damn you, DCR: You made her miss brisket

By adamg - 12/29/08 - 8:56 am

Nothing should stand between a girl and her Chanukah brisket, especially not the crappy, axle-cracking condition of Charles River Drive in Watertown, a grumpy Mels grumps.

Vehicular Menorah stocks up for the holidays

By ESun - 12/23/08 - 2:36 pm

I live across the street from the Stop n' Shop on Harvard Street in Brookline and yesterday around 8 pm witnessed the strangest thing!

A very schmaltzy post

By adamg - 12/5/07 - 8:16 pm

Margalit loves her some latkes:

Next time, he'll hack a tchinik

By adamg - 12/14/06 - 11:52 am

Matthew got one of those dreidels that plays "The Dreidel Song" when it spins.

The day a Sullivan helped complete a minyan

By adamg - 12/14/06 - 10:32 am

Jim Sullivan recounts that his grandfather delivered milk in Mattapan back in the days when it was heavily Jewish. People would ask him his name, he'd say "Sullivan" but they'd hear "Solomon" and assume he was a landsman.

Hallmark does not sell Chanukah ornaments

By adamg - 12/12/06 - 10:03 am

So don't make the same mistake Lyss did.

Redefining Channukah

By adamg - 12/10/05 - 8:45 am

Ian hates Channukah:

So I've been looking for things I could like about Hannukah -- ways to redefine it, make it something OTHER than a simple "yay our repressive theocracy killed their repressive theocracy."