Howdy! I’m getting ready for what is sure to be an extremely bizarre Hanukkah party in Tel Aviv, part of the GoEight series of parties, sponsored by Taglit-birthright israel, JDub Records and...
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Shabbat Hanukkah: Day 4
Oil lamps are the way to go on Hanukkah. They last WAY longer than those skinny little wax candles and the miracle we commemorate was all about the oil, know what I mean? Also it’s just so darn...
A Refugee’s Plight: In Search of Miracles
My friend, onion-picking buddy and former Taglit-birthright israel co-madrich, Shaanan Meyerstein sent me the following and I thought it would be important to share with you all. Looking at...
Hanukkah: 3rd Night
Maybe an fstop of 3.5 is too much?
Ham for Hanukkah!
This photo, taken by Nancy Kay Shapiro and then reproduced in Gothamist, at first seems like a silly error, the product of some clueless clerk at Balducci’s. But then I read Bah, Hanukkah by...
From Tashkent to Tel Aviv
Taglit-birthright Israel’s first Winter group arrives Taglit-birthright Israel‘s 825th bus load of young Jews recently arrived to Israel just in time to join in all the Hanukkah fun. This...
A Tale of Two Hanukkahs
Analog Hanukkah: My Menorah in Jerusalem. Yeah… oil is cool! Digital Hanukkah: Source:
Hanukkah 2007: Day 1, Jerusalem
Left: Nice new Menorah at the Kotel. Looks familiar? It used to be part of a synagogue in Gush Katif… Right: Hanukkah is… the festival of lights! Oh wait, that’s candle lighting at...