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	December 10-31, 1997 / 11 Kislev-2 Tevet, 5758 / Chanukah Issue
	Featured for 12/31/97 Featured for 12/31/97 Jackie Mason thanks the pope for a very special Chanukah. Linda Chavez foresees a grim, Seinfeldless 1998.

Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer ignites Chanukah's inner light

Thought / Adventures In Ideas
Rabbi Moshe Sherer takes on Hellenism, ca. 1997

Then & Now / Living History
Lawrence Charap exposes the Maccabees

Thought / Adventures In Ideas
Rabbi Hillel Goldberg on the weekly Torah portion: Joseph's proactive prophecy vs. our century's totalitarian revolutionaries
The Fruitcake of Our Affliction: Akiva and Ilene Miller relate the responsum of the renowned Halachic authority the Kringler Rav on that famous Jewish holiday, Xmas

Jimmy's Breslin's kept promise; Binyamin L. Jolkovsky's continuity epiphany; Rabbi Yaakov Bleich's remembrance of the forgotten; Julia Gorin's secularist confessions

JWR's audiomagazine delivers the sounds of the Chanukah Lights, plus Law and Order's Steven Hill with the best of Olomeinu

Small World / Global Affairs
Josh Pollack on wars and rumors of wars in Cyprus

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illustration / Josh Pollack

Virtual Jerusalem impostor threatens JWR with legal action

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Let's be brutally blunt: for the overwhelming majority of this generation's Jews, Judaism is pathetic -- and that's putting it mildly. It's been made as appetizing as four-month old matzah. Except unleavened crackers don't leave a bitter aftertaste, nor, for that matter, a hangover.
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Zeidy Zalman tells on "The Snitch"; Naftali Cisner presents a children's Chanukah coloring page and coloring puzzle!

Ellen Small on raising a gifted child
Dr. Jacob Mermelstein fills us in on childhood depression
Nehama C. Nahmoud on the Jews of Yemen
Susan Rubin Weintrob on Judaism's green thumb

JWR's Daily Columnists!	Eric BreindelMona CharenLinda Chavez
	Robert ScheerDon FederRoger Simon

G. Silber presents Dovid Meyer: The Orphan From Jerusalem

"The Search," by Ruth Finkelstein

Michael Elkin meets Chicago Hope's Mandy Patinkin

Elliot B. Gertel: Fox's Ally McBeal could use a good defense

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