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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Shabbat – 1/03/09 (7 Tevet 5769)
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week’s reading is — Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27). Torah Aliyot and Topics: Aliyah 1: Genesis 44:18-30 Judah steps forward, Aliyah 2: Genesis 44:31-45:7 Judah steps forward, Joseph identifies himself and conciliates … Continue reading
This Week in Jewish History (12/28-1/3)
December 28: 362bce – Esther made Queen 1912 – The organizational meeting of the National Council of Young Israel took place December 29: 1870 – New York City authorities warn Jews about incompetent and unscrupulous mohalim who were causing the … Continue reading
Shabbat – 12/27/08 (30 Kislev 5769)
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week’s reading is — Mikeitz (Genesis 41:1-44:17). Torah Aliyot and Topics: Aliyah 1: Genesis 41:1-14 Pharaoh’s dream, The Chamberlain of the Cupbearer’s remembers Joseph, Joseph is summoned Aliyah 2: Genesis … Continue reading
This Week in Jewish History (12/21-27)
December 21: 1867 – Austrian constitution abolished discrimination based on religious differences December 22: 3720bce – Cain kills Abel 1312bce – Mishkan is completed 139bce – Chanukah miracle 1941 – Vilna massacres end with 32,000 Jews having been murdered 1970 … Continue reading
Chanukah
This year, Chanukah is celebrated from sundown December 21 through sundown December 29. Chanukah, the festival of lights, is a Rabbinic clebration that begins on 25 Kislev (in November or December). Chanukah celebrates the miracle of the oil in the … Continue reading
II Maccabees – Chapters 13-15
{13:1} In the one hundred and forty-ninth year, Judas realized that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea. {13:2} And with him was Lysias, the procurator, who was in charge of the government, having with him one hundred … Continue reading
II Maccabees – Chapters 10-12
{10:1} But Maccabeus and those who were with him, the Lord protecting them, even recovered the temple and the city. {10:2} Then he demolished the altars, which the foreigners had constructed in the streets, and likewise the shrines. {10:3} And, … Continue reading
II Maccabees – Chapters 7-9
{7:1} And it happened also that seven brothers, united with their mother, were apprehended and compelled by the king to eat the flesh of swine against divine law, being tormented with scourges and whips. {7:2} But one of them, who … Continue reading
II Maccabees – Chapters 4-6
{4:1} But the aforementioned Simon, who was a betrayer of the money and of his nation, spoke evil about Onias, as if he had instigated Heliodorus to do these things and as if he had been the inciter of evils. … Continue reading
II Maccabees – Chapters 1-3
{1:1} To the brothers, the Jews, who are throughout Egypt: the brothers, the Jews, who are in Jerusalem and in the region of Judea, send greetings and good peace. {1:2} May God be gracious to you, and may he remember … Continue reading