Christmas
December 29, 2025, 9:55 pm
Chronicle poll results: Christmas Day
We asked our readers how they usually experience Christmas Day. Here's what they said.
By Toby Tabachnick
December 23, 2025, 10:48 am
Chronicle poll question
How do you usually experience Christmas Day?
In its heyday in the mid-1960s, Papercraft built a massive factory at the new RIDC Park in O’Hara Township filled with specialized equipment for managing the entire production of wrapping paper. (Image courtesy of Rauh Jewish Archives)
December 21, 2025, 12:16 pm
Christmas, made possible by Jewish Pittsburgh
In the days of Jewish manufacturing, Santa always stopped in Pittsburgh.
By Eric Lidji
Alan Hausman as a wise man with a camel (Photo by Ken Smith)
December 8, 2025, 2:49 pm
Tree of Life and Calvary Church celebrate faith, festivals and friendship
Tree of Life congregants will perform in Calvary's Christmas pageant, followed by a Festival of Lights celebration
By Deborah Weisberg
(Photo by Jeshoots via Pexels)
December 29, 2023, 10:52 am
Watching Christmas movies in Jerusalem
The feel-good predictability on screen provides an interlude of comfort that soothes the searing reality of current events
By Anne Gordon
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Women's March (Photo by Dimitri Rodriguez, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
December 26, 2023, 4:21 pm
Ocasio-Cortez draws fire for Christmas message comparing Jesus to Gazans
Squad member referred to Jesus’ family as “Jewish Palestinians.”
By Luke Tress
(Image via Pixabay)
December 21, 2021, 2:00 pm
The secret history of Jews and Chinese food
Why do so many Jews go to Chinese restaurants on Christmas Eve? These experts have some theories.
By Jesse Berman
Christmas TV. Photo by Jonathan Cutrer courtesy of flicker.com
December 9, 2021, 8:10 am
The true meaning of Christmas television
I do not dislike most Christmas specials because they are about a holiday I do not celebrate — I dislike them because most of them are dishonest.
By Steve Hofstetter
A photo exhibit of the menorah and Christmas tree on the steps of the City-County Building. (Photo by Toby Tabachnick)
December 29, 2020, 1:46 pm
My rabbis taught me to keep distance from my non-Jewish family.
As an adult, I’m learning to love them again.
By Aharon Schrieber
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