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One of the most memorable Chanukah holidays of my life was spent in the Old City of Jerusalem. Walking through the narrow lanes and alleyways of...
Shoot me down if you want. Call me what you will. Throw as many vrot tomatoes as you want at me … I think COVID-19 was...
Light has always been used as a metaphor for revelation. In Kabbalah, the Jewish mystics referred to the highest expression of divinity as “infinite light”. And,...
Many of us are familiar with the iconic black and white photograph of a chanukiah on a windowsill with an ominous Swastika banner flying above the...
Ideas matter. Great leaders are driven and express big ideas. Technical bureaucrats may put policies in motion, but the leaders who made a difference throughout history...
Although the Greeks were the villains in the Chanukah story, and because I can’t write another potato latke or doughnut recipe, I’ve chosen to go Greek...
There’s a joke in the Jewish community that we don’t have happy holidays. I mean, it always goes along the lines of, “They tried to kill...
Chanukah in South Africa is weird, let’s face it. It’s a festival of lights in the middle of summer! It’s a time to eat greasy latkes...
I was 20 years old when I met one of the greatest rabbis of recent times – Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. A genius with an almost...
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One of the most remarkable aspects of Chanukah is that its story is so well known. Ask anybody for a brief overview and you can be...
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