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Kate Gosselin of ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8’ Shares Her Favorite Christmas Traditions
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dross
Thought you had it tough raising your kids? Try raising 8! On the hit TLC TV show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” we see married couple Jon and Kate Gosselin go through the daily struggles–and, of course, the daily joys–of raising their adorable children: 8-year-old twins Cara and Mady, and 4-year-old sextuplets Leah, Hannah, Alexis,…
Enya’s ‘And Winter Came’: An Ode to the Season
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Ellen Leventry
Enya’s seventh studio album, “And Winter Came,” is not so much a holiday album as it is an ambient ode to the season. Featuring ten original winter/holiday-themed compositions and two traditional Christmas carols, the CD features the “choir of one” production–multi-layered vocals that create the trademark Enya sound–found on such hits as “Orinoco Flow.” Which…
J.K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales for Wizards (and Muggles)
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shuang
Arriving with surprisingly low-key Muggle murmurs, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” is the newest book written by J.K. Rowling after the final Harry Potter book came out last year. For those who read Deathly Hallows, you’ll remember a book of wizard fairy tales (the wacky equivalent of the Muggle world’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales) play…
New ‘Lights’ and ‘Songs in the Key’ of Hanukkah
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Esther Kustanowitz
Even if Christmas doesn’t represent an annual temptation for Jews, there’s one area where Hanukkah can’t hold a candle (sorry) to Christmas: Christmas music trumps “I Have a Little Dreidel” every time. Most Hanukkah songs sound like they were created by your grandmother on Long Island. (Sing the songs with a New York accent, and…
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