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What is Chanukah?

What is Chanukah?

Dec 4, 2018 | Holidays

What is Chanukah?    This is how the Talmud begins its short foray into the origins of Chanukah. Remarkably, there is very little material in the Talmud on Chanukah.  While Purim has a tractate all its own, Chanukah merits a few scattered lines and a number of minor mentions.  Chanukah was apparently not very much [more]
Can you see the flowering Eshel in the wilderness?

Can you see the flowering Eshel in the wilderness?

Oct 31, 2018 | Parsha Notes

Parashat VaYeira - By Miryam Kabakov - The Eshel community was invited to spend a recent Shabbat with the Sixth Street and Stanton Street shuls, two Orthodox communities on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  The hospitality, hachnassat orchim, extended by these shuls made us feel like these were our communities.  Orthodox allies intermingled, learned together, ate and [more]