Hanukkah Day 1 – Dispelling Fear and Finding Courage

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Hanukkah Day 1 – Dispelling Fear and Finding Courage

by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen This week's Torah portion is Miketz — we are smack dab in the middle of the Joseph story, a sure sign that Hanukkah will soon begin, as we always read this portion during Hanukkah. In addition, this week's Shabbat candle-lighting time is almost as early

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Ups and Downs for a Berliner Environmentalist Jew

This month I hit my lowest low. On of the leading Berlin newspaper's headline commented on my mood: "Berlin's Environmentalists Between Despair And Defiance". This month referendum about the ownership of the city's electric grid was rejected. The idea was to force the city's government to re-buy the grid that

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