Webmasters Make $$$ DEAR EDITOR: I am responding to two letters in The Gleaner (December 1, 2012), one from Marcus Blackstock, and the other from Malcolm McDonald. To Mr Blackstock, I say: In the United States, flogging a child is an assault on a minor and can land the parent in jail and the child in the care of the State. I won’t argue that the US is a paragon of societal virtue, but I seriously doubt that lack of flogging is the cause of its problems. I happen to…
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Hanukkah and Jamaican Jews
Webmasters Make $$$ By Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, Jamaica Gleaner Guest Columnist The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah begins this year at sundown on Saturday, December 8. Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Revolt of the Maccabees in the 2nd century BCE, about 2,200 years ago. One of the major observances is the lighting of the lights in an eight-branched Hanukkah Menorah, also called a Hanukkiah. We light one additional candle each night using the shamash, a separate candle…
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