CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE: FIRE

FIRE  IN THEIR HANDS FIRE PERFORMANCE ( click on photo to see larger image ) I had the pleasure of attending the “Lighting of the Menorah” back in December.  It was a very exciting and informative experience.   After the lighting ceremony there was an amazing light display by a couple of fire dancers who […]

GRAND MENORAH LIGHTING

  Chanukah – the eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev – celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration, of  spirituality over materiality More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of […]