Hanoka was attempting to unravel the mathematical complexities of how Purim falls in Adar Bet, or the second month of Adar, this year, making 2000 a leap year, not only in the solar calendar but in the lunar, or Jewish calendar, as well.
Purim is upon us. Time to stock up on story books to share:
Our family\’s Esther was an 11-year-old girl, a petite and doe-eyed child with a profound sense of physical and temperamental modesty. She attended a large urban middle school, and this was her first year moving from class to class, her first year of boy-ask-girl school dances, her first year changing clothes in a locker room.
In addition to wanting to get back the Golan Heights, Syrian President Hafez Assad also is hoping that normalized relations with Israel will help improve the faltering Syrian economy — and Israeli officials already are preparing for that.
Now that my daughter is 11-weeks-old, I am beginning to understand the true meaning of the word \”sacrifice.\” At seven in the evening when I have finished working a long day and I would like to sit down for a meal with my husband, instead we take turns entertaining our daughter. That is sacrifice. At two in the morning in the midst of a dream which I would love to continue, instead, I muster up my strength to feed her. That is sacrifice.
Throughout the nation you will find hundreds of fascinating memorials remembering victims, as well as Jewish sites both old and new.
There will be no burning of photos, no vindictive giving back of stuffed animals, no late night hang up calls. This will be the best breakup I\’ve ever had. \”Let\’s just be friends\” will ascend from cliché to reality.
Zack has always been fiercely independent, making separation anxiety a nonissue as he smoothly transitioned from daycare to preschool to day school, from overnights with friends to overnight camp — and now — to overseas.
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