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Shake Shack and Uber Eats signed an exclusive deal to offer delivery directly on the fast-casual giant s iOS app in a pilot that launched Wednesday.
It s one of several moves the company has made to shift further online as people remain at home and urban centers see less lunch crowds.
CMO Jay Livingston told Business Insider the company has signed up 1.4 million first-time purchasers through its digital channels since March.
The company also plans to build out drive-up centers and continue to focus on its social media presence in the coming year.
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Most of the early Christmas songs were religious. However, Up On The Housetop was the first Christmas song to tell the story of Saint Nicholas, otherwise known as Santa Claus. Hanby s song was largely inspired by Clement Moore s famous 1823 poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas.
The first Christmas song to mention Santa Claus was Benjamin Hanby s Up On The Housetop, written in 1864.
Most of the early Christmas songs were religious. However, Up On The Housetop was the first Christmas song to tell the story of Saint Nicholas, otherwise known as Santa Claus. Hanby s song was largely inspired by Clement Moore s famous 1823 poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas.
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 brought sermons filled with invective against Jews for the supposed crime of crucifying Christ. Instead of “good tidings of great joy,” there were apt to be blood libels and pogroms. In some Polish and German communities, Jews referred to Christmas Eve as Vay Nacht (Woe Night), a bitter play on Weihnahchten , the German word for Christmas. So great was the fear of antisemitic violence that r
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
For a sheer mind-boggling scenario it’s hard to beat the movie “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.”
How about serenading a roomful of predominantly Jewish customers by a group of Chinese waiters singing “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” in Yiddish, yet at a Canadian restaurant on Christmas Eve?
Or that “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is an allegory of the Jewish immigrants with prominent noses who swarmed into New York and were derided as “Orientals” by the “real” Americans.
The launching pad for the film’s shenanigans and weighty analyses is the simple fact that almost all popular Christmas songs were the works of Jewish composers and writers, many of whom like the pioneer moguls of Hollywood were emigrants from Russia.
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