Chanukah Musings
FLUSHING, NY: With an evening job awaiting me, I did not have the luxury of spending the first night of Chanukah at a party, or with my wife. She spent it with her father and his friends. I chose to briefly stop at my grandparents for the candle lighting, before dashing off to work.
An elderly community sees its roles reverse as a young child hands them candy for a change
The holiday celebrates a miraculous victory, where a revolt led by religious Jewish rebels defeated a Syrian-Greek king and his allies, briefly reestablishing an independent Jewish state, before the Romans finally extinguished the ancient Judean state a century later. A tiny isle of victory in a stormy sea of persecutions. (more…)