Chanukah

Carly (Ketzirah) on December 27th, 2011

Here’s the replay of the Rosh Chodesh Tevet & Hanukkah candle lighting service at OneShul.org, recorded on December 27, 2011. What a wacky, fun service it was — at least for me!  Check over at PunkTorah.org very soon for my article there about Tevet and the experiment with bibliomancy that we did during the service.  [...]

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Carly (Ketzirah) on December 19th, 2011

I was commenting on Twitter about an article that R’Leigh Ann Kopans wrote, and tried to comment on the site where it was posted, but couldn’t for some reason, so I thought I’d move those comments here. Plus, I had some time to think about it and have more fun and exciting (at least in [...]

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Carly (Ketzirah) on December 3rd, 2011

In thinking about Kislev, I went right to the dreidel and the Hanukkiah.  I decided that if I had to pick one, it’s the Hanukkiah (but I may explore the other dreidels later in the month!)  The Hanukkiah is the nine-branched menorah that we light on Hanukkah.  Even though we generally just call it a [...]

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