I knew Hanukkah celebrated defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens and the story got complicated.
by Rabbi Eliran Shabo ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — When my wife and I arrived in this capital city on Sept. 1 to serve as rabbinical…
Religion
From the Sources: Happy Herod’s Day
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The first-century C.E. Latin satirist Persius Flaccus devoted one of his poems to the theme that even persons who are…
Fellow residents help Erica Karabus celebrate Chanukah at Calgary’s Manor Village at Signature Park
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – She may be the only Jewish resident at Calgary’s Manor Village at Signature Park, but Erica Karabus is enjoying a…
Rabbi Mark Glickman: Chanukah – A Secular/Religious Festival for the Ages
By Rabbi Mark Glickman (Edmonton) – To the rabbis of the Talmud, Chanukah seems to have been in a category of its own. Unlike other…
Cantor Russ Jayne: The stories of Hanukkah
By Cantor Russ Jayne (Calgary) – Stories have great power. We tell stories about ourselves and about our communities because they give our lives meaning,…