Edition 36
Feb.-March 2001   Adar 5761 Vol. 4 Edition 2
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About the month of Kislev: Important facts and figures


Winter solstice: Chasing the darkness: Thoughts on the shortest day of the year
Rabbi Arthur Waskow


HANUKKAH basics


Origins of the festival of Hanukkah: The miracle and the revolt: changing attitudes
Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Seven times Hanukkah: Commemoration of seven important events in Jewish history
Hanukkah acrostics : Literary ways to chronicle a victory
Sidney Hoenig


Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages)
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History and two traditional melodies    (*audio recordings*)
The world is like a dreidel
or: How the rabbis Judaized the spinning top
Sidney B. Hoenig


The unfamiliar psalms of Mattathias and Judah: Passionate poetry from the First Book of Maccabees
Intro. by David Rosenberg


"Lo, the conquering hero cometh" - from Handel's Judas Maccabeus: The story and a historic choral performance    (*audio recording*)

Isaiah the prophet meets Socrates the philosopher: The Hebraic and the Hellenic view of life
Abraham Leon Sachar


Miracles for a broken planet
: Recalling a childhood Hanukkah on the eve of the Holocaust

Chaim Potok


A Hebrew Lesson: The rootword H-N-KH
Dr. Joseph Lowin

related The Jewish calendar: How it is calculated and when it was established
The Jewish calendar: Solar/lunar structure
The zodiac in Jewish tradition

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