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The Talmud raises a basic question in discussing the Festival of Lights: Mai Chanukah— What is the reason for Chanukah? Answer: the miracle of the one flask of oil that burned for eight days, when the Maccabees liberated Jerusalem from the Assyrians, rededicated the Temple and rekindled the Menorah. So, now we celebrate by kindling lights for eight days. More ... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—"Gutter journalism" is the term used by a Professor of Communication at the University of Haifa, Gabi Weimann, to describe the way that the Israeli media has dwelt upon, and glorified, our local gangsters in recent weeks. More ... JERUSALEM —I recently participated in a moving experience —a rally held on the site of the proposed United States Embassy in the Talpiot section in the southern part of Jerusalem. The rally, held in conjunction with the Orthodox Union's Biennial National Convention, had two objectives: To call for the U.S. More ... Money MattersHappy Chanukah! What wonderful memories those two words conjure up. I remember the wonderful latkes my grandma used to make. Bathed in so much oil that Grandma Sophie set the hot latkes on sheets torn from brown paper bags to drain off some of it. More ... It was, in many ways, the longest, most painful Chanukah of my life. But in other ways, it also was the most strangely beautiful and uplifting. More ... |
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