Many have pointed out that this year is the only time in the 21st century that the first day of Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving. It is fortuitous that the two holidays occur on the same day, for thematically they are identical.
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By Rabbi Sholom Stern
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11/20/13
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This year Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coincide for the first time since 1888 and the odd pairing won’t reoccur for another 79,000 years.
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By Rabbi Steven Graber
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11/20/13
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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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Placing the icing on a Chabad Hanukkah in Hewlett
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Chabad of Hewlett held its second day of Hanukkah celebration at Grant Park in Hewlett with its annual “Hanukkah on Ice” event on Dec. 11.
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12/19/12
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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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Lighting the menorah at Cedarhurst Park
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Rabbi Schneur Wolowik of the Chabad of the Greater Five Towns led the lighting of the giant menorah in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park in Cedarhurst on Dec.8, the first night of Hanukkah. In addition to the menorah lighting there was singing and dancing to the traditional holiday songs.
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12/12/12
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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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On Shabbat of Hanukkah synagogues around the world read from the section of Genesis that details the impressive success of Joseph under the most difficult of circumstances.
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Rabbi Yehuda Septimus
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12/6/12
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One of the most important values celebrated during the Hanukkah holiday is captured in a passage near the end of the haftorah that we read in synagogue on the Saturday morning of the holiday.
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash
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12/6/12
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Hanukkah seems to be a strange holiday.
The Jewish people have always been proud of being called the “People of the Book.”
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Rabbi Yaakov Feitman
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12/5/12
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