Tag: Menorah

  • Everybody Should Celebrate Hanukah!

    Everybody Should Celebrate Hanukah!

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    by ProfDave, ©2020    (Dec. 9, 2020) — I think everybody should celebrate Hanukah.  The menorah has more to do with Christmas than elves and reindeer.  Well, maybe it’s too late to come up with the eight gifts for the eight days and all that.  But stop for a moment and think about what Hanukah means…

  • Gingrich, Palestine, Obama and the Menorah

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    PALESTINIAN CLAIMS TO ISRAELI LAND “A VERY THIN STRETCH INDEED” by paraleaglenm, blogging at paraleaglenm (Dec. 12, 2011) — In 167 B.C., the Jews revolted under the leadership of the Maccabeans and restored Jewish control of Israel and the Temple’s ransacked interior, lighting the oil lamp called the ‘shamash’ in the sanctuary. This is the origin…