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  • Happy Chanukah!

    12/25/2024 6:21:49 PM PST · by EinNYC · 39 replies
    12/25/24 | Me, Myself, and I
    Wishing all my fellow Jews a very happy Chanukah! Pass the latkes!
  • Rare oil lamp with Temple menorah found from time when Romans barred Jews from Jerusalem

    12/26/2024 11:29:37 PM PST · by blueplum · 9 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 26 Dec 2024 | Gavriel Fiske
    A rare, 4th-century CE ceramic oil lamp recently discovered during Israeli Antiquities Authorities excavations near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem will be displayed to the public for the first time during the current Hanukkah holiday, the IAA said Thursday. The unusual lamp is decorated with imagery related to the services in the Jewish Second Temple in Jerusalem, including a Temple menorah (which had seven branches, unlike the nine-branched menorahs used during Hanukkah). Also depicted on the small lamp are an incense shovel, which Temple priests used when making offerings, and a lulav... The Second Temple was destroyed in 70...
  • Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah / finding Christ in the Menorah / Light of the World

    12/26/2024 2:07:43 PM PST · by Jim Robinson · 9 replies
    God gave Moses instruction on how to create the Golden Menorah to light up the Tabernacle. The Lampstand See Exodus 25:31 "And Being in agony, He prayed more earnestly and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground" Luke 22:44 Only the purest of olive oil was used to light up the menorah.
  • Chanukah Over Syria. Miracles can still happen here.

    12/26/2024 4:02:32 AM PST · by Freeleesy · 5 replies
    FPM ^ | Dec 25, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    On this Chanukah, menorahs will be lit not only in the land of Israel, from Jerusalem to Gaza, but in Lebanon and on the heights of Mt. Hermon overlooking Syria. Vacationing families will visit the waterfalls of the Hermon Stream in the Golan Heights from which the Syrian Greek armies had descended thousands of years ago to conquer Israel leading to the events of. Chanukah. The lights of the menorahs over darkness are a reminder that miracles can still happen here. The Syrian Greeks had called the area Paneas after their god Pan and the Arab Muslim conquerors had retained...
  • The Hon Peter Dutton MP, Leader of the Opposition – Chanukah Message

    12/25/2024 5:11:23 AM PST · by Texas Fossil · 2 replies
    Peter Dutton Australian MP ^ | Dec 24, 2024 | Peter Dutton
    This Chanukah, there is much that will weigh heavily on the minds of Jewish people in Israel, around the world, and here in Australia. There’s the plight of the hostages who remain in Hamas’s captivity. There’s the chilling reality that in Israel’s hours of need since 7 October 2023, some of its allies have shamefully behaved more like adversaries and demanded standards of Israel which they would never expect of themselves in similar circumstances. And there’s the sordid moral inversion of the International Criminal Court that has criminalised Israeli leaders for taking the fight to those terrorists responsible for the...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Tunes For Our Troops: Hanukkah Celebration (12/25/24 to 1/2/25) ~ 14 December 2024

    12/13/2024 6:05:34 PM PST · by Kathy in Alaska · 89 replies
    Our Troops Rock!! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend
    ***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ FReeper Canteen Music Dedication Presents ~ Hanukkah Celebration ~ *****~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for their time &...
  • A MERRY JEWISH CHRISTMAS

    12/24/2004 8:18:40 AM PST · by KMC1 · 36 replies · 2,033+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | 12.24.2004 | Kevin McCullough
    A merry Jewish Christmas Posted: December 24, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In the "War on Christmas" this year, one clear truth has emerged: The debate over religious symbols does not stem from one clear group - observant Jews. In all the debates about how a "Merry Christmas" does not seem to include non-Christians, it is clear that those leveling that charge are not those who celebrate Hanukkah. This fact is being largely ignored by the same press which is idolizing the secularists who are making all the noise. Some evidence? A new CNN-Gallup poll out on Thursday found that 88...
  • How did academia fail so badly? The battle of Chanukah on America's campuses

    12/14/2023 8:02:42 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 17 replies
    Chabad.org ^ | 12/12/2023 | Tzvi Freeman
    For at least two and a half thousand years, virtually all educated people believed that knowledge was the savior of humanity. Even Maimonides wrote in his “Guide for the Perplexed” that once all of humankind had knowledge, the world would be at peace. Then came the 20th century. The most educated nation in world history—a land to which all other nations looked for science, psychology, culture, philosophy, reason, and ethics—applied its knowledge to commit crimes against humanity that no barbarian could have imagined. “Does calling for the genocide of the Jews violate your institution’s code of conduct concerning bullying and...
  • Happy Chanukah!

    12/07/2023 10:28:09 AM PST · by EinNYC · 37 replies
    12/7/23 | Me, Myself, & I
    to all FReepers who observe it!
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Tunes For Our Troops ~ Hanukkah Celebration ~ 17 December 2022

    12/16/2022 6:00:06 PM PST · by Kathy in Alaska · 172 replies
    Our Troops Rock ! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend
    ***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ FReeper Canteen Music Dedication Presents ~ Hanukkah Celebration ~ *****~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for their time &...
  • 'Santa Bootcamp' star Rita Moreno thinks we need more Hanukkah holiday movies: 'I'm gonna talk to Lifetime about that'

    12/03/2022 1:39:01 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Fri, December 2, 2022 | Ethan Alter
    The holiday season is always a gift for fans of Christmas movies, as cable channels like Lifetime and Hallmark and streamers such as Netflix and Hulu wrap up dozens of shiny new cinematic baubles for viewers. But some of December's other festivities — including a world-famous Festival of Lights — end up getting the short shrift. The paucity of Hanukkah-themed holiday movies has been much remarked upon in recent years, with both Jews and non-Jews (including Stephen Colbert) agreeing that we need at least eight nights' worth of quality Hanukkah fare. If anyone can make that happen, it's screen legend...
  • NYC Mayor-Elect Eric Adams @ Menorah: 'We NY'ers know What the Rebbe Did for Us'

    11/30/2021 7:34:36 PM PST · by NetAddicted · 9 replies
    Chabad.org ^ | 2021/11/30 | Dovid Margolin
    NYC Mayor-Elect Eric Adams @ Menorah: ‘We NY’ers Know What the Rebbe Did for Us’ Shares Chanukah message of hope By Dovid MargolinNovember 30, 2021 11:15 AM On the first night of Hanukkah, New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams helped light the world’s largest menorah at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, sharing the message of Chanukah as taught by the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. On the first night of Hanukkah, New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams helped light the world’s largest menorah at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, sharing the message...
  • WATCH: Hanukkah Celebrated in Public in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the First Time, After Trump Peace Deal

    12/13/2020 4:37:53 AM PST · by knighthawk · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | December 11 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    Jews observed the holiday of Hanukkah (or Chanukah) in public for the first time in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Thursday, following the peace deal between Israel and the UAE under the auspices of U.S. President Donald Trump. A “lavish” Hanukkah party was thrown at the foot of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, on Thursday evening.
  • Presidential Message on Hanukkah, 2020

    12/10/2020 4:35:28 PM PST · by ransomnote · 25 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | December 10, 2020 | President Donald J Trump
    During this holiday season, the First Lady and I send our warmest greetings to the millions of Jewish people in the United States and around the world as they begin the celebration of Hanukkah and the miracle that kept the flames of the menorah burning in the Second Temple for eight nights. The candle-lighting tradition that began over 2,000 years ago is rooted in perseverance and faith—two virtues that are indicative of the Jewish culture and the Jewish faith. This year’s observance of the Festival of Lights comes at a time when the unbreakable bond between the United States and...
  • Did Jesus Christ Celebrate Hanukkah?

    12/30/2019 12:50:43 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 42 replies
    One Place ^ | Sharon and R.G. Hardy
    This Jewish festival takes place in winter, usually December, and lasts for eight days...It is not one of the major feasts of the Lord that was given to Moses for the Jewish people to keep as part of their covenant with God. The reason it is not in the Jewish Bible? It occurred during the intertestamental period—the 400 years between Malachi and Matthew, the old and new covenants, when the heavens were silent. God’s chosen people had become idolatrous and rebellious which led to both Israel and Judah going into captivity to the Assyrians and Babylonians. About halfway through this...
  • Without Chanukah, the Celebration of Christmas Would Not Be Possible

    12/22/2019 5:58:28 AM PST · by Kaslin · 36 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 22, 2019 | Gregory Rummo
    Beginning with their enslavement in Egypt, when Pharaoh ordered Hebrew midwives to murder all newborn Jewish males, throughout Israel's captivity under the Babylonians and the Assyrians, to the Holocaust, Israel has been targeted for destruction. But long ago God promised the prophet Jeremiah that Israel would cease to be a nation only when the sun, the moon and the stars had stopped shining. “‘Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,’ declared the Lord, ‘will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.’”The feast of Chanukah—the word means ‘dedication’ in Hebrew—commemorates an event in Israel’s history...
  • Happy Chanukah!

    12/01/2018 10:45:37 PM PST · by EinNYC · 35 replies
    12/2/18 | Me, Myself, & I
    To those who celebrate The Festival of Light, have a happy one. I'm making a big batch of latkes!
  • 'Merry Christmas from the president and first lady!' Melania stuns in glittering black dress

    12/14/2017 6:25:57 PM PST · by x1stcav · 52 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12/14/17 | Erica Tempesta
    Melania Trump wowed classic black cocktail dress while posing alongside her husband for their first official Christmas portrait as president and first lady. The Trumps' 2017 Christmas portrait was revealed on Melania's Twitter page on Thursday afternoon — and the festive photo sees the president flashing an uncharacteristically bright smile. According to the tweet, Andrea Hanks photographed President Trump and his wife on December 5 in the Cross Hall of the White House.
  • Chanukah Candle Lighting Blessings

    12/12/2017 6:27:34 AM PST · by Wuli · 36 replies
    Judaism 101 ^ | Judaism 101
    Chanukkah Candle Lighting Blessings Please note that this page contain the name of God. If you print it out, please treat it with appropriate respect. If you do not have experience reading transliteration please see the Guide to Transliteration. One candle is added to the menorah each night. The first night, you light only the shammus (the one at a different height) and one Chanukkah candle. By the eighth night, you light all of the candles. Candlelighting Procedure Candles should be added to the menorah from right to left (like Hebrew writing). See animation at right. The shammus candle is...
  • Hashem Melech (Happy Chanukah 5777 - Vanity)

    12/25/2016 1:49:00 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 39 replies
    YouTube ^ | Jan 23, 2016 | Gad Elbaz and Nissim
    Happy Chanukah 5777מי שמאמין לא מפחד MI SHEMA'AMIN LO MEFACHED Those Who Believe Have No Fear HASHEM MELECH HASHEM MALACH HASHEM YIMLOCH L'OLAM VA ED