By: Yuval Nemirovsky We all know the festivity of Chanukah with the miracle of the 8 days and we have no problems to quickly identify the holiday as a Jewish holiday. We love to light the candles and we struggle not to eat many delicious “sufganiot” (Donuts). Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, […]
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By: Miriam Mercado Every 25th of Kislev (?”? )????? ,begins the Hanukkah celebration. For eight days, we light the Hanukiah, play dreidel and eat sufganiyot and levivot. We tell with great pride and excitement the story of the triumph of the Maccabees and identify with their desire to fight for their ideals. We remember the
(We came to drive away the darkness…) By: Sergio Edelstein We come to illuminate in Hanukkah, similarly to the way we do all year round, with the educational process of the tnua. We come to drive away the darkness, the ignorance, the intransigence and the injustice. The act of illuminating means to be open-minded and
By: Yuval Nemirovsky The political system in Israel is not direct. The citizens do not vote for a candidate for the presidency or a prime minister, but rather they vote for political parties that form the Knesset. The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, is composed of 120 members elected everyfour years by a system of proportional
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Source: “The Menorah” Author: Theodore Herzl, the Father of Political Zionism (1860-1904) … He held the candelabrum of Hanukkah in his hands and thought: “When had the primitive structure of this candelabrum first been devised? Obviously, its form had originally been derived from that of a tree: The sturdy stem in the center; four branches
By: Miriam Mercado Every 25th of Kislev (?”? )????? ,begins the Hanukkah celebration. For eight days, we light the Hanukiah, play dreidel and eat sufganiyot and levivot. We tell with great pride and excitement the story of the triumph of the Maccabees and identify with their desire to fight for their ideals. We remember the