This month, as many of you know, brings Hannukah. It is a curious and problematic festival that, while minor in the grand scheme of Jewish calendar festivals, has become “major” here in the USA.
Rabbi Richard F. Address, D. Min.
The annual excess of buying has begun. I often wonder what we are doing or what message we are sending with our Channukiot displayed on shopping center light posts or our public candle lightings.
Yet the festival, despite its current incarnations, does provide us with a reason to celebrate family and the light that we hope that brings. Read more
