Hanukkah a celebration of light in the midst of dark current events |
HANUKKAH. An eight-day celebration marking the Jewish people’s rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after it was destroyed in 168 BC by the Syrians. Lighting the menorah or candles commemorates how back then a single day’s worth of oil fueled them for eight days.
Kelly Gordon, my Irish Catholic editor, suggested I report on Hanukkah. And Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Board member Mindy Levine explained that “never again” means never forgetting the Holocaust, never again standing in lines to enter gas chambers. “It means we hear you, both the hate and the love. And we will prevail.”
I was given a photo of a Labrador named Zion wearing a yarmulke plus a Star of David kerchief on his neck. The sender wrote: “Jewish pride by way of our pups!”
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