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gift giving
Creative ways to wrap wine bottles as gifts
Jonathan Fong
October 27, 2016
I never like to go to a party without a gift for the host or hostess, and a bottle of wine is always a surefire way to say thanks for the invitation.
Teaching the value of giving in the season of getting
Ryan Torok
December 12, 2014
The gift-giving tradition that these days is so strongly connected with Chanukah can be a mixed blessing.
A Sporting Chanukah
Carin Davis
December 9, 2004
On the third night of Chanukah my true love gave to me, an Olympic swim cap signed by Lenny Krayzelburg, a game of Horse with the Houston Rocket\’s Bostjan Nachbar and a chance to be on the set of ESPN\’s Cold Pizza.
Thanks to the Center for Sport and Jewish Life\’s online Chanukah auction (www.CSJL.org), gift giving just got more interesting.
Skip the Socks, Think Sushi Candles
Leora Alhadeff
December 11, 2003
What do you get the person who has everything? There is always someone on your list that gives you a hard time, the person who would appreciate something more creative and less generic. The chocolate gift baskets are too businessy and the gift certificate is too impersonal. So what to do? Get the gift that screams Jewish festivity and thoughtfulness; the gift that is kitchy, creative and will surely be a conversation piece at your Chanukah celebration.
Gift-Giving
Teresa Strasser
October 26, 2000
It was an innocent batch of chocolate chip cookies that started what I\’ve come to call \”The Great Gift-Giving War.\”
I Wish It Were More
Marlene Adler Marks
December 3, 1998
I am a lousy gift-giver. I\’m bad enough on birthdays, when gift-giving makes me so nervous that my gifts never arrive on time. But I\’m absolutely awful in December, when I feel so pressured by Chanukah expectations that I buy gift after gift for three of the people on my list, inadvertently leaving out everyone else. Maybe it\’s a new kind of learning disability, Adverse Gift Disorder. But I mean well, I do.
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