Holiday Special 2015: Sing Sing, Ornaments, Car Accidents, Curses - Amy Klein

“When you're raised religious no matter how long you leave it, you still can't give up hope.”

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Holiday Special 2015: Sing Sing, Ornaments, Car Accidents, Curses

A special holiday edition of The Moth Radio Hour: A family tradition endures community-wide scandal, a single woman tries to find her soulmate for Hanukkah, a daughter honors her mother's last Christmas wish, a guard works New Year's Eve at Sing Sing prison, and the holiday spirit fills an emergency room. This hour is hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Tricia Rose Burt tries to reunite her family with Christmas ornaments.

Matthew Dicks has just finished Christmas shopping for all his friends when he gets in a near fatal car accident.

Alexandra Rosas gives her son one last gift from his grandmother.

Ted Conover, a writer working undercover as a corrections officer, witnesses New Year's Eve at Sing Sing prison.

Amy Klein is 38 and single and is told by a Rabbi in Jerusalem that she'll meet her husband by Hanukkah.

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Stories in this Episode

12:57
Tricia Ball

by Tricia Rose Burt

A family tradition endures community-wide scandal.

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06:33
This is Going to Suck

by Matthew Dicks

Holiday spirit fills an emergency room.

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06:30
The Last Gift

by Alexandra Rosas

A daughter honors her mother's last Christmas wish.

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13:53
Fires of the New Year

by Ted Conover

A guard works New Year's Eve at Sing Sing prison.

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05:14
The Matchmaking Rabbi

by Amy Klein

Amy Klein finally finds a husband after paying a man in Israel to lift a curse from her by Chanukah.

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The music in this story

  • The Drift - Uncanny Valley
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  • Sufjan Stevens - Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One
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  • Sufjan Stevens - Christmas in the Room
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  • Sufjan Stevens - Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind
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  • Sufjan Stevens - Go Nightly Cares
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  • Sufjan Stevens - Make Haste to See the Baby
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  • Sufjan Stevens - Auld Lang Syne
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