Monthly Archives: December 2008

Shalom! from Armenia

  Thank you very much for sending me these newsletters. I am really happy to get them. I learn many interesting things from them about Israel and Judaism. I actually live in Armenia and I am not a Jew, but I respect your nation, history and culture very much and all that is really interesting [...]

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Food for the Soul – Dishes with Jewish North-African Flavors

When Fortuna was six-years-old she made aliya from Tripoli (the capital city of Lybya) to Israel. It was the mid fifties, and her family was settled in the Sharon area in a Ma’bara (מַעְבָּרָה, transit camp for newcomers in Israel). When she grew up she got married and continued living with her growing family in [...]

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Hanukkah

Hanukkah (Hebrew: חנוכה‎, alt. Chanukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew [...]

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