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Hanukkah Greetings

December 1, 2010 by · Comments Off on Hanukkah Greetings 

Hanukkah Greetings, The commemoration of Hanukkah, which starting this year at sundown on Wed Dec 1 and continues until sunset on Thursday, December 9, is a time for the Jewish people around the world to reflect on events historical and miraculous of 23 centuries ago to mark the survival of the Jewish nation. To commemorate this important moment, and the many relationships celebrants are looking to recognize, American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM) has a new selection of greetings to you please each sender and recipient.

The latest collection of L’Chayim to Life! Hanukkah card incorporates a conversational style and tone that fits perfectly with festive celebration. In addition to the heartfelt words, the cards are so beautiful drawing that represents the deep-rooted traditions of the feast of modern amenities. A fresh color palette enhances creative thinking of symbols like menorahs, candles, routers, and the Star of David to offer something that is both respectful and fun.

“Hanukkah is based on a rich history, and Jewish religious officials want to send a message of congratulations from their pride in this story of a joyful way,” said Pam Fink, editor of The Chayim to Life! Online at American Greetings. “To meet this need, our Hanukkah greetings that feature year, a wonderful mixture of beautiful images and warm feelings that gives consumers a variety of ways to recognize this important occasion and people in their lives that make it so special.”

Consumers can find the new The Chayim to Life! Hanukkah festival greetings to participate drugstore chains, grocery stores and mass retailers nationwide, as well as in American Greetings and Carlton Cards retail stores. For more information, including store locations in your area, please visit us at www.corporate.americangreetings.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com / amgreetings and Facebook www.facebook.com / AmericanGreetings.

About American Greetings Corporation

For over 100 years American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM) has been a designer and manufacturer of innovative social expression products that help consumers improve their relations. Outline of the company greeting cards are American Greetings, Carlton Cards, Gibson Greetings and Recycled Paper Papyrus, and other paper product offerings include DesignWare party goods, American Greetings and Plus Mark gift-wrap and cards boxed. American Greetings also has the largest collection of electronic greetings on the Web, including cards available at AmericanGreetings.com through AG Interactive, Inc. (online division of the Company). AG Interactive also offers digital photo sharing and personal publishing at PhotoWorks.com and Webshots.com, and provides a single source for online graphics and animations to Kiwee.com. In addition to its product lines, American Greetings creates and licenses popular character brands through the American Greetings Properties group. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, American Greetings generates annual revenues of approximately $ 1.6 billion, and its products can be found in retail stores worldwide. For more company information, visit http://corporate.americangreetings.com.

Hanukkah

December 11, 2009 by · Comments Off on Hanukkah 

Hanukkah,At the White House, as the Obama administration is learning all too well, a party is never a simple affair. (Just ask the Salahi-stricken Secret Service.)

The latest kerfuffle, the New York Times reports, involves the Obama administration’s first Hanukkah party.

One bone of contention has been the guest list: Administration officials say they are inviting 550 people, just 50 less than President Bush invited to his White House Hanukkah parties. But reports in the Israeli press spawned fast-spreading rumors that the Obama White House was only inviting 400 – and that the Bush White House had actually invited twice that number.

It was, some suggested, a snub – and one that critics said should not come as a surprise.

The rumors appear to have been touched off by an opinion piece by Tevi Troy, who was a liaison to Jewish groups in the Bush administration. As the Times reports, Troy suggested the Obama administration was taking Jewish votes for granted, citing as evidence the administration’s call for a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The guest list issue, Troy said, created “a nagging sense that there may be a studied callousness at work here.”

(Clarification: Troy writes in to say that he wrote his piece in response to an article in the Jerusalem Post that said the guest list would be cut in half. “My piece was about what the implications of that decision would be,” he said. “The White House has now increased the guest list, which is all to the good, but I did not start the story that they cut it in half.”)

Soon there were news stories and rumors proliferating about the Obama administration’s alleged “callousness,” as exemplified by the handling of the party. There were also complaints that the invitation to the event, which draws elite members of the Jewish community, called it a “holiday reception” instead of specifically mentioning Hanukkah.

Jews at home and abroad have been slow to warm to Mr. Obama – a recent poll found nearly 40 percent of Israelis believe he is Muslim – and it seems the distrust within the community is at least partly driving the anger.

After all, Mr. Bush’s White House last year sent an invitation to its Hannukah party that included a Christmas tree. Yet his administration’s handling of the party is being compared favorably to the performance of Mr. Obama’s administration.

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Jews in the Obama administration include David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Peter Orszag and Larry Summers.

As for the party itself: The Times reports that it will feature a Jewish student choir, children of a soldier deployed in Iraq lighting a menorah, and the presence of the president and first lady.

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