A Broadway moment for Chanuka - tonight is the first candle lighting.

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Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024 Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024 at 4:57:43pm PST

Graphic illustration or painting of the Chanuka lights, showing stylized right hands of every color of skin, in sleeves of gray, with nine white candles --the eight for each holiday night, plus the shamash/lighter-candle -- glowing and flickering, uplifted against a pale gray background.

Julie Benko from “Funny Girl” combines “Tomorrow” with Cantor Azi Schwartz singing the blessings for lighting the Chanukia. JTA article here.

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“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

The Invincible Strategy.

<big>...“Evil is not overcome by denunciation. It is surprising how much efficacy is supposed to go with denunciation. Real, constructive, aggressive good is of far greater significance than eloquent invective; such invective has its place, but it must be accompanied by active practical effort…”

...[As Thomas Carlyle taught], denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet is it far better to light the candle than curse the darkness.”

William Lonsdale Watkinson, 1907</big>

“Repel Evil by that which is better.”

Qur’an 41:34, Surat Fussilat 41:34 (“Explaining in Detail”) Surah Fussilat 41:34 ^{[h/t JimHawkins1946]} from the fundraiser Muslims Unite to Help Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims