Chanukah 5769 - December 21-29, 2008
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The Thing About Oil
By Naftali Silberberg
New Orleans has long been dry from Hurricane Katrina, yet Prince Williams Sound is still feeling the effect of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill... |
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Compromise
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
To a mature tree, a gash here or a torn limb there is of little or no consequence. But the smallest nick in the seedling results in an irrevocable deformity |
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All's Well – When it Ends
By Baruch Epstein
Today is the seeds for all of the "shoulda, coulda woulda" that can become weeds of regret. Yet at times it seems that the flowers that blossom from our choices take too much time to blossom. |
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Candles Behind Bars
By Eli & Malka Touger
There are 50 states in the US, said the Rebbe, and all but one allowed Jewish inmates to light Chanukah candles |
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Menorah Lighting at Lady Liberty Will Call for Change Around the World
Chabad.org Staff
Jewish community leaders will join international representatives and New York officials for an unprecedented grand menorah lighting at the Statue of Liberty organized by Chabad-Lubavitch. |
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Let's Celebrate Our Victories
By Benyamin Bresinger
We all have triumphs, many a day. Sometimes the struggles outnumber them. At
the end of the day, every time we win it is because we have G-d in our lives. |
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A Suitcase of Goodness
By Daniel Moscowitz
On Sunday, I embarked on a day-long trip to visit the families who were sitting shiva for the victims of the Mumbai tragedy. I was ready for a mission of light. |
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I Shall Not Fear
Katya Umansky's Courageous Escape from Communist Russia
By Mirish Kiszner
Katya Umansky was alone in her Moscow apartment when the phone rang. "All right, Umansky," said the caller. "Let's put the games aside. I'm a representative of the KGB. I need to talk to you." |
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What I Have Learned Since Fifth Grade
By N. Ozick
There are times when I feel exactly like I'm back in the winter of fifth grade, facing a mountain of homework which I CANNOT do. So I resort to fifth-grade behavior. I procrastinate. |
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Steps
A Couple's Heartwrenching Struggle
By Bronya Shaffer
I see her beautiful and content... but she says it's no more than her facade. There on that ground, soaked through with tears of joy and despair, she adds her own |
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Dear Father
A Letter from the Trenches
By Elad Nehorai
I will never understand, Father. Why can't the world be simple? Why do we need to fight for our souls? Why can't the good side get along with the... other side? |
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A Street Drain, Hot Ice & the Chanuka Flames
A Lesson In Metaphysics
By Shimona Tzukernik
Are things as they appear to be? Or is everything also its opposite? Is heat hot? Or is it cold as well? Is ice fire? And am I no-thing? |
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Poland 1942: A Chanukah Miracle
by Rosalie Greenberg
I knew then that even if by some miracle I could talk my way out of not having a Gentile document, I could never explain the latkes and doughnuts in my bundle... |
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