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Category: Jewish

Happy Christmas/Hanukkah

Posted on December 25, 2024December 14, 2024 by Simon
Light the First Candle and Sing a Hanukkah Song Give Gifts of Joy and Hope. Merry Christmas... Read More

Two Dogs and Happiness

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Simon
Bruno and Missy wish you a Happy Christmas/Hanukkah... Read More

Tradition

Posted on December 20, 2024December 14, 2024 by Simon
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”. Gustav Mahler Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah coincide this year. Magical thinking makes it a good omen. So next we... Read More

L’Shana Tovah

Posted on October 2, 2024September 30, 2024 by Simon
L’Shana Tovah Happy New Year The Jewish New Year starts tonight at sundown. We will be celebrating in new ways. A happy and sweet New Year to all. The photo is of clouds self organizing above da... Read More

Opportunity

Posted on January 31, 2024January 8, 2024 by Simon
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” Milton Berle The garland was made in Nepal from New Zealand wool. It is the first product made in Nepal I have ever seen and shows how the global ec... Read More

Happy Hanukkah

Posted on December 7, 2023December 1, 2023 by Simon
Happy Hanukkah A country must be allowed to fight incursions that kill it citizens. I’m not a religious Jew but I will be praying this holiday season for moderate Palestinians and moderate Israe... Read More

Never Again

Posted on November 8, 2023November 5, 2023 by Simon
That which has been seen…… cannot be unseen. Hamas’s Pogrom on October 7 was one such event. Jews from around the world will not stop until all of the perpetrators are brought to justice. I ... Read More

What was Hamas Thinking?

Posted on October 16, 2023October 15, 2023 by Simon
Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself. Last week Hamas terrorists crossed the line into evil. They did it with the intent to provoke a response. At this point, eight days after the the terr... Read More

Shabbat Shalom

Posted on October 15, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“It is not that Israel has kept the Sabbath; the Sabbath has kept Israel.” Ahad Ha’am A view in the door of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. It is the oldest synagogue building in t... Read More

Lovesong Three

Posted on August 2, 2021July 12, 2021 by Simon
“Yiddishkeit does not represent all of Jewry.” Julius Lester from Lovesong... Read More
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