Jews
Candle 8: #HanukkahHoopla
Tonight marks the eighth night of Hanukkah, the grand finale to our #HanukkahHoopla experience! …
Candle 7: #HanukkahHoopla
Tonight is the seventh night of #HanukkahHoopla!…
Candle 6: #HanukkahHoopla
Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate! May the significance of this day be special for you and your families. And if you find you have a moment, please read these two special blogs for a little more #HanukkahHoopla….
Candle 5: #HanukkahHoopla
Tonight is the fifth night of Hanukkah as well as Christmas Eve! Come read a little more about #HanukkahHoopla!…
What We Are: A Hanukkah Post
When Tech Support was a l’il dude, I found myself in the grocery store for the eleventy-seventh time that week. It was our turn to host the annual Jacobson family Hanukkah party that night, and twenty-four people were coming….
Candle 3: #HanukkahHoopla
Tonight is the third night of Hanukkah! Check out this post on the music!…
Candle 2: #HanukkahHoopla
#HanukkahHoopla continues tonight with Candle #2….
A Little #HanukkahHoopla
Starting immediately after Thanksgiving, I noticed that the blogosphere became dominated by posts about Christmas. And that’s cool and all. But I thought: I want some #HanukkahHoopla!…
The Book Is Closed. Or Is it?
When I was a little girl, a Sunday School teacher told me that on Rosh Hashanah, G-d opened a big book that had everyone’s names in it, young and old. He explained how between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, G-d would decide who would live and who would die in the upcoming year. And how. Which was a pretty scary concept. …
How The Struggle To Survive Spring Break Was A Lot Like The Jews' Exodus From Egypt
This year, Spring Break fell on the same week as Passover – the Jewish holiday which commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. (Think Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments.) This year there seemed to be so many similarities between Monkey’s heinous April “staycation” in Western, New York and the oft-repeated, seemingly never-ending Passover story that I simply could not ignore it….