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Israel Alert
Newsletter
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Chanuka
EDITION
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23
Kislev 5773
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December 7,
2012
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United with Israel's IDF Chanukah
Party
On Wednesday Night December 12, 2012, the 5th
night of Chanukah,
American and Israeli students and families will join
together with Israeli
soldiers and commanders on a military base located in
close proximity to the
border with Hamas-controlled Gaza.
The event will feature music, traditional Chanukah food,
special presentations
and of-course, the "Lighting of the Menorah".
This year, the soldiers
will be lighting a very special Menorah that was created
from the remains of
kassam rockets that exploded in Israel. Nearly 15,000
rockets have been fired
from Gaza in the last 13 years. An Israeli artist has
transformed these
missiles of terror into something of unique beauty and
light!
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Chanukah: Time to say THANK YOU!
Chanukah is the Jewish Thanksgiving!
While each day we express our
"hakarat hatov"
(appreciation) for all of life's brachot
(blessings),
Chanukah is the special time
for the People of Israel to celebrate and
say: THANK YOU!
We thank God for the awesome miracles
of Chanukah that took place over 2000
years ago. For the illuminating light
of the Menorah. And for the Maccabees - a
small Jewish army that defeated the
Greeks. But what does this have to do with
the People of Israel today? Are these
ancient miracles relevant in today's
modern world?
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Chanukah: Fight
for
What's Right!
The week of December
9th begins the 8 day
celebration of Chanukah -
the Jewish Festival of
Lights! Chanukah
commemorates the revolt of the
Maccabees, (possibly the
first ever Israel Defense
Forces in history!) against
the wicked king
Antiochus. It wasn't
enough for Antiochus to simply
control the land and people
of Israel - he wanted to
control their
SOULS!
Make no mistake, unlike
Haman, Hitler, Torquemada, and
Hamas, Antiochus had no
specific interest in
killing any Jews, he simply
wanted the Jews to convert. He
wanted them to abandon
their religion, their
principles and their beliefs.
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SDEROT MENORAH: Terror into
LIGHT!
Terrorists
in Gaza have fired
over 12,000 kassam
rockets into southern Israel.
As
Hamas
rockets explodeD in
Israeli towns,
blackening the sky and darkening
the
spirit, an
Israeli artist
works hard to
brighten up the day with sparks of
light.
He
is turning the
darkness of
terror into a source of light - in
a very
literal
way!
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Students at the Binghamton University in upstate New York are
planning
to spin their dreidels to a Guinness World Record next week.
The attempt to break the current record of 'simultaneous dreidelss
spinning' is
set to take place during the week of Hanukkah. It is a holiday
tradition to
"spin the dreidele" - a four-sided spinning top featuring a
Hebrew
letter on each side.
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Hanukkah
in ISRAEL!
The Hanukkah
experience in Israel is very different from
the Hanukkah that I experienced as
a child in the United States. In
America, Jewish parents give their
children presents, have elaborate Hanukkah
light displays, hang Hanukkah
banners, and utilize big menorahs, likely due
to the influence of
Christmas.
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This week's
Torah portion is
Vayeshev (Genesis
37:1-40:23). It must also
be
noted that
with the
conclusion of Shabbat
this week, we begin the
holiday of
Chanukah -
the Festival of
Lights!
I
believe that
there is a connection
between this week's
Torah portion
and the
Chanuka which
follows just a few
hours after Vayeshev is
read.
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