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Topic: Christmas

January 2, 2013
3:47 pm

Tunisian state secretary for immigration Houcine El Jaziri (photo credit: screen capture/Youtube)

Merry Christmas, ya Jews!

Tunisia’s state secretary for immigration gets his holidays confused

December 25, 2012
3:06 pm

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the City and to the World) speech from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on Tuesday, December 25, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

In Christmas address, pope urges resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

Benedict XVI prays for peace in Middle-Eastern and African regions torn by Islamic violence

December 25, 2012
12:16 pm

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, center, holds a Baby Jesus statue in Saint Catherine's Church at the end of the Christmas Midnight Mass, and leads the procession to the Grotto, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, at the nearby Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem on Tuesday, December 25, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Abed Al Hashlamoun, Pool)

Worshipers rejoice in Jesus’s Bethlehem birthplace

Pilgrims line up inside the fourth-century Church of the Nativity complex to celebrate Christmas

By Dalia Nammari

December 25, 2012
10:15 am

Perverting Christmas with bad will toward Israel

With European funding, this season’s message from Palestinian NGOs is that the Jews murdered Jesus

By Ariella Kimmel

December 25, 2012
12:49 am

A man dressed as Santa Claus distributes Christmas trees to Christians outside Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. (photo credit: Mahmoud Ilean/AP)

Mosque issues fatwa against Christmas

Ho, ho, no Online message says Christmas is a ‘falsehood that Muslims should avoid,’ the Daily Mail reports

December 24, 2012
10:09 pm

Armenian Christians celebrate Christmas in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2012. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Political issues dominate Christmas in Bethlehem

Latin patriarch celebrates new status at the UN, while local Christians lament that most of their families have left

By Dalia Nammari

December 24, 2012
5:56 pm

Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal speaks at the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, on December 24 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

On Christmas Eve, Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch celebrates the ‘birth’ of Palestine

Top Roman Catholic cleric says the Palestinians’ path to freedom and independence ‘remains long’

December 24, 2012
2:10 pm

(Illustrative image via Shutterstock)

How Jews celebrate Christmas

It’s not just a day for Chinese spare ribs, it’s crucially a season to learn and decide who we are

By Harold Berman

December 24, 2012
1:23 pm

Avigdor Liberman surrounded by reporters in Jerusalem, December 16 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Separation anxiety

The prosecution and press are having difficulty letting go of the Liberman case; papers investigate Temple Mount trash, and Shas and Likud are engaged in a lovers’ quarrel

By Ron Friedman

December 23, 2012
6:32 pm

A woman celebrates the New Year in Israel, January 1, 2012. (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Haifa to go ahead with New Year’s celebrations despite threats by party pooper

City municipality quick to recall letter from rabbi that warns hotels and halls not to display non-Jewish symbols during celebrations

By Stuart Winer

December 23, 2012
12:42 pm

A lone surfer walks along the stormy shoreline of Tel-Aviv (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tempestuous times

Netanyahu butts heads with Bennett, wet weather makes headlines, and Maariv reports on the mystery of the missing Christmas tree

By Ron Friedman

December 22, 2012
5:50 pm

Bethlehem’s first female mayor, Vera Baboun is seen in front of the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West bank city of Bethlehem. Bethlehem’s first female mayor, Vera Baboun, can’t walk through the main square of the biblical town without being stopped by admirers. “This is our new mayor, who is turning Bethlehem into one of the greatest cities in the world,” a tour guide hollered to a group of Christian tourists passing by the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

New female mayor gears Bethlehem up for Christmas

Vera Baboun, a Christian, tries to raise hope in city plagued by economic woes, says ‘we’re celebrating birth of Jesus… and of Palestinian state’

By Lauren E. Bohn

December 22, 2012
5:17 pm

Former pope's butler Paolo Gabriele is received in a private audience by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, in December 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Christmas pardon for pope paper purloiner

Benedict forgives his jailed aide for leaking private documents to expose Catholic church corruption

By Nicole Winfield

December 22, 2012
5:02 am

The church's interior (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Monks in Zion

The Benedictines who serve at Abu Ghosh’s Church of the Resurrection set aside hours and sometimes days for meditative silence, but when they do speak, it’s often in colloquial Israeli Hebrew with their Muslim neighbors

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

December 21, 2012
1:22 pm

Santa Claus

Jewish tweeters debate Xmas laws

Ever wonder if mistletoe is ‘mevatel the issur of shomer negiya’? Read on!

By Times of Israel staff

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