Comments on: Hanukah: Festival of Light or Nationalist Triumph?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for this excellent post. I have similar mixed feelings about Chanukah, and wrangled with them in my own blog this past week (and at this season last year). I like the drash from Rabbi Falcon.

By: Yikes!

Yikes! — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Taking a Stroll Around My Blog-o-verse

It’s been a slow day at work. I’m correcting a whole bunch of items in a book that we’re publishing soon. In between bouts with this mindless drivel, I strolled (“surf” is so the wrong metaphor for the way I

By: The Head Heeb

The Head Heeb — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Better late than never

Imshin has some thoughts on last year’s post about Why I Might Not Have Been A Maccabee. She points out, quite accurately, that my use of “Palestine” to describe pre-Roman Judea is anachronistic (I’ve changed the article accordingly), and she…