The night was cool, but hearts were warm as the South Baldwin Jewish Center celebrated Hanukkah by lighting the community menorah on Dec. 8 at the Long Island Rail Road station.
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By Adrienne Lyons
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12/17/15
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Once upon a time, the coming of Hanukkah and Christmas meant that friends and family would send me lots of gifts, and I would reciprocate.
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12/24/14
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On the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 16, Baldwin residents came out to mark the occasion by lighting the menorah’s first candle.
A menorah lighting ceremony was held at the Long Island Rail …
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12/23/14
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’Tis the season of holiday lights and holy nights, of children’s smiling faces, giddy gift-opening, half-price sales and the festive if frenetic bustle of store-to-store shopping.
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12/5/13
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We’ll have to wait 77,798 years to face the same challenge we’ll confront this very month — a perfect culinary storm of biblical proportions.
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11/14/13
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Consider the Yiddish word latke. It is what it sounds like, an onomatopoeic name for a flat, fried potato pancake consumed by Jewish people during Hanukkah.
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12/13/12
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We have a choice. We are here, in the brief, wild weeks after Thanksgiving and before Hanukkah and Christmas, and we get to decide how to survive this interlude.
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12/6/12
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