Sources for items pictured in the Chrismukkah books and website:
Cafe Press - After you've checked out the Chrismukkah Store , don't miss the Chrismukkah/CafePress Gift Annex - All of our original designs on T-shirts, hats and other Chrismukkah gift items.Pop Judaic.com - The place to find many of the items featured in my book "Chrismukkah: Everything You Need to Know About the Hybrid Holiday". Sara Schwimmer's website PopJudaica.com features a fun, clever and irreverent selection of non-traditional gifts for the Jewish holidays.
ByersChoice.com - Chrismukkah advent calendars.
ChaiMaintenance.com - Shirts and hats for all the high-maintenance people on your list, be they "Goy" or "Oy."
ChocolateGelt.com - Got Gelt? A good source on for Chocolate Gelt in all sizes and permutations.
StarkyAuthentic.com - The only authentic Jewish deli in the state of Montana. Kathy Stark, co-owner of Starky's, is a former executive chef for the very un-kosher Honey Baked Ham company. Now she's now happily married to a nice Jewish boy from Detroit. Kathy wrote many of the recipes featured in the Chrismukkah books.
ChristopherRadko - Jewish star and menorah ornaments.
Elope - Festive hybrid holiday hats.
JudaicaSpecialties.com - Among the most comprehensive on-line stores selling everything you'll need for a merry Hanukkah.
Menorah.com - A large selection of traditional and untraditional menorahs and accesories. Many of the menorahs pictured in my books and on the Chrismukkah website are from Menorah.com.
Judaicaspecialties.com - An on-line store selling everything you'll need for a merry Hanukkah.
HebrewBeer.com - Brewers of He'Brew Beer.
www.oytotheworld.com
The Klezmonauts - The perfect soundtrack for the Chrismukkah holidays. A funny, strange and still beautiful mixed-marriage of musical styles.
Chrismukkah friends, affliliates and contributors
www.ecoautoinc.com
When I'm not busy messing with the holidays, I'm trying to get people out of their SUVs and into zero-emission electric cars.
www.speesees.com
Rachel Pearson is our friend and Chrismukkah card illustrator. Check out Rachel's organic baby clothing line.
www.montana-photographer.com
Livingston, Montana photographer Larry Stanley' shot many of the photos for my book and on this website..
www.future-farm.com
Web and graphic designer Ryan Tillett runs the Bozeman based company Future Farm. This is their web site.
www.starkysauthentic.com
Chrismukkah's executive chef Kathy Stark and husband Glen run Starky's Authentic, serving up the best plate of matzoh ball soup in Montana.
www.michelleganttceramics.com
My wife Michelle is a ceramic artist and this is her studio in Bozeman, Montana.
www.mosaicmercantile.com
Before I got into the fake holiday racket, I was the boss at Mosaic Mercantile in San Francisco.
www.mosaicaday.com
My buddy Rod Shapiro's new holiday feast is a multi-cultural sit-down affair and gives us something to do in the Spring while we're waiting for Chrismukkah to come around again. We think Mosaica Day is a heck of a better idea than EasterOver. Nu? Hide the matzah baby!
Organizations and websites that deserve your support:
www.religioustolerance.org
This is an extensive, rich content web site which promotes religious freedom, tolerance and diversity as positive cultural values. It contains over 2,730 essays and menus.
www.mnsu.edu
Religions of the world.
www.humanrightswatch.org
Human Rights Watch - defending human rights worldwide.
www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International - working to protect human rights worldwide
www.au.org
Americans United for Separation of Church and State is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom.
www.interfaithfamily.com
An organization serving Jewish Interfaith marriages with advice and information.
www.dovetailinstitute.org
The Dovetail Institute is a resource for intermarriage, interfaith family life, and raising children interfaith
www.swirlinc.org
Swirl is a non-profit oganization for the mixed community (mixed race individuals, interracial/interfaith couples and families, transracial adoptees, etc!)
www.mixedrace.com
Web site for people of mixed cultural backgrounds.
www.sojos.net
Sojourners is an activist progressive Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice.
www.thebricktestament.com
"The Brick Testament!" is the story of the bible illustrated entirely in Legos by the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith.
www.halfjew.com
One of the original websites on half-Jewishness. Not often updated, but worth checking out.
www.halfjewishbook.com
A celebration "For the thousands of Americans with one Jewish parent, who fry up latkes even as they hang Christmas stockings, this book will provide welcome doses of affirmation and laughter."
www.heebmagazine.com
"Heeb is an ambitious antitrust investigation into the monopoly on God. It is a sweaty prizefight between hip hop and sushi in this corner and klezmer and kugel in the other. It is a plague on modern-day pharaohs replete with miraculous jailbreaks and a nice little riot or two. It is a Carnival cruise to the Garden of Eden with all-you-can-eat cheesecake and Parliament as the house band. Halleluja."
www.mazaltovcocktail.com
"From anti-establishmentary tendencies in the Hasidic movement to Jewish involvement in the anarchist movement to halakhic justifications for vegetarianism to Jewish anti-Zionism to communism in the Kibbutz movement to Jewish resistance to the Roman occupation of ancient Israel, and everything else in between."
www.jewlicious.com
"Where our delusions of grandeur and mutual admiration for each other are rivaled only by our self-loathing and in-fighting. 'Just like the Jewish people, only bloggier!'."
www.jewsweek.com
A popular Jewish blog site.
www.jewsmas.org
"In a well-meaning but misguided attempt to be inclusive, Christian society has cast Chanukah in the role of the Jewish Christmas. To liberate this ancient holiday from this false role, Jewsmas introduces a new holiday"
www.vidlit.com/festivus
"Festivus was celebrated by Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) on Seinfeld, an event in which a bare aluminum pole replaces all holiday and religious symbols, where participants compete in "feats of strength" and undertake the "airing of grievances." "
www.mosaicaday.com
"Our vision is to ask people within our community to share a meal together and by so doing, also share their ideas, their culture, their values and their food."
www.universist.org
A Universist is defined as an individual who applies personal reason and experience to the fundamental questions of human existence, deriving inspiration from the natural uncertainty of the human state.
www.atheists.org
"Since 1963, American Atheists has been the premier organization laboring for the civil liberties of Atheists, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion.":
www.infidels.org
"the Secular Web is a website operated by the Internet Infidels, a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and promoting a naturalistic worldview."
www.ujc.org
United Jewish Communities most recent survey information on intermarriage in America.
www.ajc.org
American Jewish Committee - The latest Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion.
www.joi.org
The Jewish Outreach Institute.
www.skirball.com
The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles is dedicated to exploring connections between 4000 years of Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals. It welcomes and seeks to inspire people of every ethnic and identity in American life, aspiring to build a society in which all of us can feel at home.
www.myjewishlearning.com With intermarriage an acknowledged part of the American landscape, the only remaining debate is how to respond to interfaith unions.
www.the-oc.org
The unofficial fan site of The O.C., Seth Cohen and Chrismukkah.
www.caryn.com
"It's not your Father's Hanukkah." A smart, cool web site written by a woman named Caryn. In addition to the holiday stuff, there's lots of good content about Caryn and her diverse and eclectic interests.
www.oybaby.com
OyBaby is a DVD/CD/VHS for babies who are Jewish (or half-Jewish). It combines stimulating imagery with fun Hebrew music. Makes a great Chrismukkah gift.
www.trafford.com
"What's a Jew to do on Christmas Eve?" A children's story for those who love the holidays - especially the ones you don't celebrate! - by Matthew Black.
www.Jewishlights.com
An excellent book on interfaith marriage.
www.shj.org
Humanistic Judaism embraces a human-centered philosophy that combines the celebration of Jewish culture and identity with an adherence to humanistic values and ideas.