Hanukkah starts tonight and we have all the menorahs (or Hanukkiahs, excuse me) on the counter ready to light. I have half of my business holiday cards written. We have a few Hanukkah trinkets wrapped for Tin. And I fear going anywhere near a shopping area for the next three weeks. But here are a few things to think about: Ben Franklin said “joy is not in things, it is in us” and I’d raise…
Is time going by – no, racing by – I woke up this morning and the calendar said it is December 1st! Good God Almighty – December already?
Hanukkah The story of Hanukkah is the story of religious freedom. In 168 BC King Antiochus the 4th, who inherited his kingdom from Alexander the Great, set up an idol in the Jewish temple and ordered Jews to worship it. He was a zealous Hellenist and wanted all people to follow Greek ways. A revolt led by Mattathias and his son Judah the Maccabee to overthrow Antiochus raged with the odds against the Jews; they…