Sunday, December 5, 2010

It's Hanukkah time...

...a good time for Hanukkah stories.

Our favorites include two by Eric Kimmel:
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblens                                       and
The Chanukkah Guest
 







 These two stories both include characters who play the dreidel game:

 In The Chanukkah Guest, old Bubba Brayna plays with a bear whom she has mistaken for the rabbi.

In Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, Hershel must defeat the goblins who have overtaken the synagogue, and he outwits one greedy goblin in a game of dreidels. 

              











The Rose Park Library also has The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate by Janice Cohn, which takes place in Billings and is based on a true story.  

Link to the Billings Gazette article about the hate crimes of 1993 and how the community took a stand.

“Transformed by hate;  How events shaped a community” includes a photo of Tammie Schnitzer and her son Isaac next to the hole made by a rock thrown through Isaac's window, December 1993:







         

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