Watch Video Download PDF The calendar says that today is January 6, 2024. On the Jewish calendar, today is the 26th day of Tevet in the year 5784. But in Israel, it is October 8th, 2023, the day after the horrific unimaginable unanticipated barbaric killing spree launched by Hamas on Simchat Torah, Saturday, October 7. It is …
Watch Video Download PDF We have learned a lot this past week. One thing we learned is that “pronounism”, or “pronounophobia”, two words I just invented, and which mean the incorrect use of pronouns, can get you into more trouble than calling for the genocide of Jews. The other thing we learned this past week …
A few years ago something very rare occurred, something that happens maybe once in a lifetime, about as frequently as Haley’s Comet. Chanukah coincided with Thanksgiving. We marveled at the rarity of the event and the quirk of the Jewish calendar that caused the holiday of Chanukah, which for as long as any of us …
Chanukah December 12, 2015 I want to share with you an explanation I wrote of the Chanukah story which puts it in contemporary terms. When the Macabees, or as they were called by some, the HUCKABEES, came marching into Jerusalem they went up the HILARY to the temple, and found that the SANTORUM …
This Chanukah has been an extremely busy time of year, especially as I am slowly taking on more responsibilities and beginning to resume a full schedule. On the first night of Chanukah I was with Ambassador Michael Oren and his wife, Sally, at a private reception at the 6th & I Synagogue downtown. From there …
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