HANUKKAH AFFAIRS: In the quiet of the ruined home, with the menorah’s flames flickering, a story of human endurance, of light persevering through the deepest darkness, was told.
Miketz opens with Joseph rising from the darkness of prison to great light, while Hanukkah celebrates the end of darkness with the Maccabean rise to power.
Harvard President Claudine Gay took part in a lighting of the hanukkiah on campus this week.
As Jewish communities around the US celebrated Hanukkah over the past week, stories of vandalism and destruction circulated as public menorahs were targeted.
The ceremony was attended by Knesset members and representatives from Israeli security forces.
In order to break the record all 1,200 menorahs had to be lit within five minutes.
An investigation into the destruction of the Oakland Hanukkiah has been opened by the Oakland police department; one of a series of antisemitic attacks on the Oakland Jewish community.
A group of American Jewish writers has garnered more than 400 donated items for an auction taking place on December 15 to raise awareness of antisemitism.
We were Jews from every corner of the world, and despite the hard topics and often dark tones of the poems we shared with each other, I truly felt a little glimmer of hope.
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