Topic Tags: hanukkah

“Hers is the only festival empowered to span two moons.”

“The candles glow, tender, bright, something like your presence in my heart.”

“Backwards we are telling the story the prophet Elijah standing on the street corner”

“In times of hatred, / let there be light. / In times of fear,    let there be light…”

“This small blue box, / four inches tall, / holds forty-four candles.”

“Create new homes / And save the old ones. / Light candles, Now.”

“I see reflected in the light the faces of my family. / I see hope.”

“The story’s flame, its lesson bold: Through vast trials, the soul can soar / and the light will shine forevermore.”

“May we protect just laws, and may our resistance to unjust laws or unjust systems be firm.”