Andrew Yang was the only candidate on stage at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate who understood this clear mistake in political priorities and media attention. When asked about impeachment, he didn’t do what all the other candidates did: offer broad fist-thumping condemnations of Trump. Instead, Yang said, “We have to stop being obsessed with impeachment… and start solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.”

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she is “disturbed” by coordination between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the White House over the upcoming Senate impeachment trial… Murkowski said McConnell had “confused the process…”

…there are some limits to the president’s power over his co-partisans. Trump’s iron fist may be strong enough to break Republican resistance to his assaults on the foundations of liberal democracy, but it’s not quite mighty enough to make Republican senators vote for popular bipartisan legislation that would increase Trump’s chances of reelection.

His chances of beating Netanyahu this time around aren’t considered very high. Sa’ar is too calculated a politician to embark on a campaign just for a small chance of victory. This is part of a long-term strategy of positioning himself as Netanyahu’s likely heir…

The challenge was a reminder that when Netanyahu will not be a candidate, elections will cease to be about him and will return to being about key issues for the country’s future. If Blue and White has what to say about those issues, they should be hoping Sa’ar wins. If they are just an anti-Netanyahu party, not having him around to be their nemesis could make the party disintegrate quickly.

Likud has never in its history ousted or voted out an incumbent party leader. The pro-Sa’ar momentum among the younger faction nevertheless indicates that, sooner or later, the Netanyahu era is slowly coming to an end.

…Wissam Salsaa, told AFP that Banksy’s new artwork was “his own contribution to Christmas.” “It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem, the Christmas story, in a different way ― to make people think more” of how Palestinians live in Bethlehem, the Biblical birthplace of Jesus, Salsaa said.

…the suggestion that the Israeli military is firing on Jesus evokes ancient anti-Semitic charges of deicide… Instead of exploring and exposing the anti-Semitic canard behind the installation, or choosing not to give the vitriolic message a platform, media outlets uniformly provided warm, approving coverage.

Nowhere in Banksy’s work is there a mention of Palestinian terror promoted and rewarded by the Palestinian Authority, a prolonged terror campaign that has murdered hundreds of Israel and made the security barrier a necessity, or the threatening behavior of Palestinian Muslims that has driven out most of the town’s Christians.

But parents who really want to effectively help their kids fall in love with Hanukkah will have to make a year-round commitment…Parents who want to expose their children to a meaningful appreciation for Jewish tradition must be prepared to celebrate more Jewish tradition in their homes all year round.

For families who only celebrate one holiday or the other, this overlap is a non-issue, but for interfaith families, the overlap can make the holiday season more exciting and more festive, but also more hectic and more challenging. Good planning, good communication and mutual respect, however, make it possible for interfaith families to fully immerse themselves and fully enjoy both holidays and traditions.

As a member of an interfaith couple, you’re blessed with the opportunity to celebrate double the amount of holidays… Although the root of Christmas and Hanukkah celebrates two very different things… on the surface, they’re both about lights, gifts, and family — and those are themes you can definitely work with.

The ironies of this chart victory are manifold, not least because 2019 was going down as a year when Billboard’s history books were beginning to close on Carey. Just over four months ago, Carey and Boyz II Men’s 1995–96 megahit “One Sweet Day” was outlasted at No. 1 by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ own collaboration, “Old Town Road.”

All I Want for Christmas… is one of the few festive songs it is difficult to grow tired of, and I say this as someone who worked in a department store over two long Christmases, and had my ears bludgeoned by the same CD of pan-piped yuletide joy on repeat, a Santa boot stamping on the human spirit, forever.

Even though the song has been around for 25 years, it hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list for the first time this year. Carey’s song has already earned more than $2 million in royalties since the song was first added to Spotify, according to a study by Broadband Deals, and that number is expected to continue to grow quickly…

It’s one thing to get exactly the familiar entertainment you want when a certain level of quality is guaranteed. It’s another to be haunted by a zombie version of your childhood and to feel as though you conjured it into being yourself.

The problem is that nobody agrees anymore on what the good guys look like, nor what this century’s global threat really is. Fights over “Star Wars” cut to the core of American identity — all the way down to our childhood selves…

…there are still a majority of reviewers who gave the film overall positive marks…Rise of Skywalker isn’t a failure, nor is it remotely a sign the Star Wars brand is somehow dead or on the verge of irrelevance. Irrelevance is instead reserved for those people whose constant “sky is falling” hot takes reveal an inability to distinguish between their own personal preferences, grievances, and resentments, and the reality of how mainstream audiences and critics are really reacting.