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    As this issue of Being Jewish goes to press in mid November, the situation in Israel is tense.We try to avoid politics and ideology in our pages, but we would be remiss in not expressing our concern over the threat to Israel and our sadness over the violence. As we reflect on the Chanukah miracle that happened in Israel in ancient days, we must pray and work for a miracle in our day. In spite of incitement to violence, there are occasional flickers of decency and hope. The miracle would be if these flickers could turn to a flame of peace and burn for 8 days and beyond.We can only hope that by the time you read this peace prevails. This as our Chanukah prayer.We encourage your prayers and work with the following in mind:  

"Pray as if everything depends on God.Work as if everything depends on Man." — Cardinal Spellman  

Oseh shalom bimromav, who ya-ase shalom alenu v’al kol yisrael…  

May God who makes peace in the heavens, grant peace to us and Israel. — Prayerbook  

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." — Elie Wiesel

 

This winter holiday, which often gets lost in the seasonal commercialism that threatens to overwhelm us, is not about the military victory of the Maccabbes. Nor is it about a cruse of oil that burned longer than expected. Hanukah is about the spirit of God resting on a people and motivating them to do what they never thought possible.  
Excerpt from Sacred Intentions ©1999 Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky and Rabbi Lori Forman Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing. $15.95 + $3.50 shipping and handling. Order by mail or call 800-962-4544 or on-line at www.jewishlights.com. Permission granted by Jewish Lights Publishing, P.O. Box 237,Woodstock, VT 05091.

 

 
  Congratulations to the Winner of Our Cover Contest! 
Really, we must congratulate our Chanukah Cover Contest
winners: Maximilian and Ashley Kaplan! Max and Ashley are twin second graders at the Jewish Day School of the Northern Peninsula in Redwood City, California. The school is a beneficiary of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma Counties. 

The pictures sent in by the twins were so pretty we couldn’t choose between them, so we are sending the $50 prize for them to share (we OK’d this idea with their mom). Because we only have one cover, we could only feature one of their pictures… which one? It doesn’t matter — they are both winners in our eyes.

 

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