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Hanukkah starts at sundown. Festival of lights is the antidote to antisemitism. | Opinion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn Sunday I attended a joyous celebration completing a new Torah scroll with Lubavitch of Wisconsin....
Jews’ Centuries-Old Arguments Over Chanukah Foreshadowed Their Arguments About Israel
Slate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMany Jews this year are struggling with how to celebrate Chanukah—whether because our joy has been...
‘Herod the Great’ Review: Rome’s Man in Jerusalem
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival...
Rep. Jerry Nadler slams Benjamin Netanyahu as worst Jewish leader in 2,100 years
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoNEW YORK — Rep. Jerry Nadler Friday derided Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu as the worst leader...
A refugee hid a box of coins in an Israeli cave 2,200 years ago. It was just found
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoSome 2,200 years ago, ahead of the Maccabean revolt and impending war, a refugee fled to the Judean...
‘Rare’ ancient bullet — with ‘magic inscription’ — uncovered in Israel, experts say
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoArchaeologists in Israel unearthed a unique find: an ancient lead sling bullet engraved with a...
Better to light eight candles than to curse the darkness: Art Marmorstein
American News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn all likelihood, it wasn’t his birthday, but the 25th of December (the 25th of Kislev on the...
Hanukkah and the Miracle of Resistance
Time via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn the first night of Hannukah, people gathered at Federal Plaza in Chicago and lit candles to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on December 7, 2023. Credit...
Our mission is to increase the light in the world
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChanukah confirms our faith that the light of knowledge and truth and the light of the human spirit within which links us to the Divine can never be...
Is there connection between Hanukah and Christmas?
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLet me clear this up from the start: Christmas is not the Christian Hanukah, but there is a kind of connection. Both are connected to the Winter Solstice...
