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Work underway at Main Street Oakridger Workers are beginning to move the mound of soil between PetSmart and JCPenney in the Main Street Oak Ridge development, getting the site ready for construction of new stores. “You may have seen that mound at Main Street is being deconstructed,” Ray Evans, city economic development consultant, told the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board on Dec. 7, referring to that mound and saying it is the “first new efforts” toward the construction of new stores. “Glad to see some activity. That dirt pile should be gone shortly,” he said. As The Oak Rid...

Christmas music by Jews DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com So much Christmas music has been written by Jews that each year on the Jewish Music Hour on KNON, I host “The Totally Inappropriate Jewish Music Hour Christmas Music by Jews.” But who are some of these songwriters? Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” is the most-recorded Christmas song ever. Berlin was born in Siberia in 1888 and emigrated to the U.S. through Ellis Island when he was five. Although he had few memories of Russia, he always had a love and appreciation for his adopted land, which led him t...

K9 Bak takes a bite out of crime Taylor County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) K9 Bak “took a bite out of crime” on Monday when he apprehended a suspect hiding in a clump of palmetto bushes just a few feet from the deputies searching for him. Dale Ray Evans, 23, sustained minor injuries to his leg and was treated at Doctors’ Memorial Hospital (DMH) before being booked at the Taylor County Jail on felony warrant charges of false imprisonment, battery and petit theft, as well as loitering and resisting an officer. Subscribe to our e-Edition and read the rest of the story. Already a...

Have yourself a Jewish little Christmas 12/14/2020 at 6:44 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, December 14, 2020 For Jews in old Europe, the Christmas season was a time to be watchful and wary and to keep out of sight. For their descendants in America, the Christmas season — which is also the season of Chanukah, of course — is a time to celebrate and give thanks for the freedom of religion that protects the menorah in their living room window no less than the Christmas tree in their neighbor’s. In medieval and early modern Europe, this time of year often ...

No matter your religious beliefs, come December it's hard to escape malls decorated with bells and trees, peppermint and gingerbread coffee drinks at chain shops, and radio stations that switch to 24/7 Christmas tunes. But amid the holiday hysteria, we'd like to remind you of one very cool fact about Christmas music — namely, that some of our most beloved yuletide tunes were penned by songwriters of the Jewish faith. In the first half of the 20th century, the music industry was one of the few fields where non-Christians weren't discriminated against — at least, not as much as in other f...