Category: Hanukkah

I will also be at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey 07670 on Friday December 9 and the Central Synagogue,652 Lexington Avenue at 55th Street, New York City for Tot Shabbat on Saturday December 10.

One December morning over twenty years ago, several of the children in my preschool class were discussing the Christmas displays at the local mall and the beautiful lights adorning the homes of their non Jewish neighbors. There was such excitement in their voices and some even said they wished they…