Joanne Beauregard is nothing so much as she is a mother. When she and her husband had trouble conceiving, Joanne quit her job as an accountant to focus full time on getting pregnant. When she did, she chose to give birth at home, without pain medication. Then, for months, Beauregard sat on the couch in her Denver-area living room, nursing her infant from sunup to sundown. She nursed much of the night as well, since the baby slept in bed with Beauregard and her husband Daniel, a software engineer.

For Jewish people around the world, Hanukkah is marked by lighting candles on the menorah for eight nights, eating latkes and spinning the dreidel. But when the holiday starts, many Jewish Americans will be focused on a different tradition: gift-giving. “It’s important to recognize that it is an American Jewish phenomenon, this gift-giving that’s part of Hanukkah,” Rabbi Menachem Creditor, scholar in residence at the UJA-Federation of New York, tells TIME.

CINEMA Man in a Cocked Hat. Gap-toothed, numbingly British Comic Terry Thomas, aided by Peter Sellers and Thorley Walters, launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office in this hilariously disrespectful spoof of the lost art of statecraft. Bells Are Ringing. A so-so book and middling music do not keep Judy Holliday from turning this $3,000,000 Hollywood rerun of her 1956 Broadway hit into one of the year’s liveliest, wittiest cinemusicals.

Did you see this photo?? *link* Wow. Omg!! Follow this exchange with a dynamic discussion, hit repeat, and you have a pretty accurate snapshot of the TIME photo department’s typical Slack conversations. Even though we collectively scroll through thousands of photographs each day, there are still those that stop us in our tracks on a regular basis. As we draw close to the end of another year punctuated by grief and conflict, but also records broken and breathtaking moments of human achievement, photographers continue to astound us by offering new ways of seeing the world.

The 40-year-old singer disclosed this while speaking to BBC on what to expect from her forthcoming album entitled 'Celia'. She said, “I might just have to go butt naked in my next video because I don’t know what else I’m going to have to do to top that one!.” “And, just to put it out there, this was done in Nigeria. All the cast is Nigerian, the director, the AP, everybody is Nigerian.