Happy Hanukkah!

The Jewish Festival of Hanukkah began last night in Australia.

The last day of Hanukkah is 14 December 2015.

For details about Hanukkah, please go here.

The events on which Hanukkah is based
are found in what Christians call the Old Testament.

However, not all Christian Bibles have the Apocrypha or Deutero-Canonical Books.
The story revolves around the Maccabees.
To find out more about about the Maccabees, please go here.
The cause for the happiness of Hanukkah  is based
on ancient story of liberation.
To find out more about that, please go here.

Hanukkah: art, responsibility, and spreading kindness

Mark Podwal, Menorah and wings of gold.

Created for the Metropolitan Opera, 2011

"Hanukkah is a time where we take responsibility for the world, not only for outselves, but for spreading kindness through the world."

- Erica Brown, scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington DC

Happy Hanukkah 2013

Picture from The Muslim Times

Hanukkah began last night. Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is a time of great festivity.  It is an eight-day Jewish observance that remembers the Jewish people's struggle for religious freedom.

This writer recalls once, when living in Sydney, coming across (with a friend) a singing, dancing, making-music group of Jewish young people in Martin Place.  They were Hasidic, I believe.  The merry making was in celebration of Hanukkah and the young  people caught my friend and I up in the festivity and dancing. A memorable interlude.

More about Hanukkah

Hanukkah candle lighting blessings

Guide to lighting Hanukkah candles

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