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Rosh Hashanah recommended as a school holiday in Lee for 2010

WINK TV Southwest Florida - Tue Dec 15, 12:20 am ET

A Lee County schools committee decided Monday to recommend the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah as a day off for students in 2010.

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Hanukkiah come in all shapes, sizes
The Toledo Blade - Sat Dec 5, 8:08 am ET
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, celebrating the miracle of a lamp that burned for eight days with just one day's worth of oil in it, will be celebrated starting at sundown Friday. The most familiar symbol of the holiday is the menorah, or Hanukkiah. An additional candle on the candelabrum is lit each of the eight nights of the holiday. Menorahs can be made out of almost any ...
Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Dec 4, 10:02 am ET
Lighting up metro Atlanta, Chanukkah Wonderlands celebrates Jewish holiday
Events set to celebrate Jewish holiday
Miami Herald - Thu Dec 3, 10:53 pm ET
Jews around the world are busily making preparations for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. This year, the eight-day holiday begins at sunset Friday .
The brisket experience
The Jewish Advocate - Wed Dec 2, 6:53 pm ET
I have no idea where or when the tradition of eating brisket on Chanukah began. It probably started because brisket was a food saved for celebrations, and Chanukah was certainly that: a celebration of miracles. My grandmother made brisket for Pesach and other holidays, but I really don't remember it.
Yiddish for Comrades
Forward - Wed Dec 2, 3:27 pm ET
The week of Yom Kippur, you may recall, I published a column about a Yiddish letter, written by a young soldier in the Russian army to his family during World War I, that a reader asked me to decipher.
Sisterhood shares Hanukkah dishes
Access Atlanta - Wed Dec 2, 8:41 am ET
Hanukkah, perhaps the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday in America, begins Dec. 11.
Sisterhood shares Hanukkah dishes
Access Atlanta - Wed Dec 2, 8:26 am ET
It’s all about the oil. Hanukkah, perhaps the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday in America, begins at sundown Dec.
School schedule at standstill
The News-Press - Tue Dec 1, 1:24 am ET
Rosh Hashanah remains the sticking point in settling next year's Lee County school calendar, and the lack of consensus might prompt a committee to...
Saturday: Tulsan's design on U.S. postal stamp
Tulsa World - Fri Nov 27, 2:38 pm ET
It is only the third U.S. stamp to commemorate the Jewish holiday, which begins Dec. 11.
Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving
The Berkeley Daily Planet - Wed Nov 25, 12:12 pm ET
Somehow someone’s gotten the idea lately that Thanksgiving is all about food. Well, no, not exactly. It’s the successor to a whole variety of traditional festivals going back at least to the Jewish Sukkot (sometimes transliterated as Succoth).
Sheila's Out Shopping: Hanukkah
Naples Daily News - Fri Nov 20, 5:57 pm ET
The lighting of the first candle for Hanukkah this year will be at sundown Dec. 11, and all eight candles and the shamus will be burning brightly on Dec. 18.Hanukkah is the Jewish holiday that is also called the festival of lights, and celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the Hellenist Syrians in the second century B.C.A small amount of oil to light the ...
Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Tue Nov 17, 11:29 pm ET
Students from Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration on skid row.
Book It: Book Events November 15–21
Bostonist - Sun Nov 15, 9:29 pm ET
Monday, November 16 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store *Cory Doctorow, Makers 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Steve Buckley, A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports Tuesday, November 17 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Maxim D. Shrayer, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Anita Silvey, Everything I Need to ...
Chabad hosts Hanukkah events for all ages
The Warwick Advertiser - Tue Dec 15, 2:49 am ET
Monroe Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is celebrated this year from Dec. 11 to 19 and Chabad of Orange County, headed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, is hosting an myriad of Hanukkah events for all, regardless of background or affiliation, from community menorah lightings around the county, to the grand community “Hanukkah in Candy Land,” among other programs and services.
Sex, world record lure young people to Moscow Chanukah party
JTA - Mon Dec 14, 4:13 pm ET
MOSCOW (JTA) -- A Jewish holiday, the lure of sex and the possibility of helping break a Guinness world record drew hundreds of young people to a Moscow nightclub for an unusual Chanukah celebration.