Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer.

The men, she writes, saved bits of fat from their meager portions of food to function as candles, while the women removed threads ... millennia to the time of the Maccabees is largely beside ...

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She adds that during the Maccabees’ time ... but the righteous women of the Jewish people did not give up, and “the more they were oppressed, the more they increased and spread out (Ex.

To their enemies, the Jews cannot do anything right. They are hated when they are strong; they are hated when they are weak. They are hated when they are poor; they are hated when they are rich. They ...

The Maccabees, a Jewish resistance movement led ... Hanukkah, which is celebrated mostly in the home, gave Jewish women a place to shine – much like a domestic Christmas gave such opportunities ...

The men, she writes, saved bits of fat from their meager portions of food to function as candles, while the women removed threads ... millennia to the time of the Maccabees is largely beside ...

Firefighters were called to the home of W. J. Dodds, 607 Maple St., to extinguish a small fire which started in the basement after a torch was used to thaw pipe ...

The Dalai Lama reminds us, “The very nature (of war) is one of tragedy and suffering.” This is true for both active combatants and civilians. The loss of one life is too many. This is certainly where ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do ...

That epitomized the late NBA great’s relationship with the women’s game. After his 20-year playing career ended, Bryant ...

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...