Current
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One of the most riveting thrillers during award season is “September 5,” which focuses on the terrorist attack during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, where a team of Israeli athletes and coaches – David Berger: an American expatriate with dual citizenship; Ze'ev Friedman: a weightlifter; Eliezer Halfin: a wrestler; Mark Slavin: a wrestler and the […]
Hanukkah
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First Night: The Background of Hanukkah Over 2,000 years ago, around 200 BCE, the Land of Israel was part of the Syrian-Greek Empire (known as the Seleucid Empire). In the middle of his reign, the Seleucid king, King Antiochus III, began imposing heavy taxes on the Jewish People. His successor intensified the oppression, determined to […]
Growing up in Communist China, Hong Zheng was not familiar with any religion, nor had she ever met a Jew. She’d heard about Jews as a nation. “Chinese people usually have a good impression of the Jewish people,” she says. “They believe that Jews are very good with money.” But she didn’t even know that […]
Don’t feel bad about the menorah’s modest flame getting drowned out by the dazzling array of Christmas lights. There’s a hidden depth beneath Hanukkah’s unpretentious lights that encapsulates the world’s first ideological battle between the mighty Seleucid Greek Empire and the small Jewish nation 2200 years ago. During Passover, the Haggadah retells the Exodus story. […]
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How could my dinky menorah compete with all those dazzling lights?
