Jewish Treats
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A Tale from Texas
In 1968, the State of Texas decided to honor the deeds of Jacob Raphael De…
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The Tenth of Tevet
And it was in the ninth year of [King Zaddekiah’s] reign, in the tenth…
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Painting Our People
Born on December 26, 1902, in Rahachow, Belarus (in the Pale of…
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The Board of Deputies
The contemporary Jewish community of England began to form in the late 17th…
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Putting Chanukah in Historical Perspective
The events of Chanukah took place about 150 years after the death of…
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Chanukah Yum
While Jewish holidays are known for their food (except Yom Kippur, of…
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The Book(s) of Maccabees
Chanukah is neither directly ordained in the Torah (like Rosh Hashana,…
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Spin the Dreidel
I have a little dreidelI made it out of clayAnd when it’s dry and readyWith…
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These Lights We Kindle
While the mitzvah of lighting the menorah is an outward-focused mitzvah -…
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