tied Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 HANUKAH GREETINGS RICHARDSON DRUG STORE Page 21 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE riday, December 1, 1950 Rabbi Traces Beginnings and Customs of Hanukkah HANUKAH GREETINGS SOBERMAN & MILGROM By RABBI LEON SPITZ Wallpaper and Paints HE MESSAGE OF HANUKKAH speaks with even more compelling emphasis to Mr. and Mrs. World in our present war-crisis which has as its announced objective the preservation of the sovereignty 9053 WOODWARD AVE. 8675 TWELFTH STREET of small nations. However, its specific observance remains the direct concern of the Jew, as it has been for the past 2100 years and morOi TYler 6-6525 TR. 5-7395 In our own time Menorahs usu- All the world over, we Jews out in hundreds of thousands of celebrate Hanukkah both at home Jewish homes throughout the ally have beautiful symbolic and in the synagogue on the 25th world. This has been going on for decorations engraved on them (Continued on Page 21) 1 ,11MM.0401. 11.11/.0•NO•■■■ 0.1•Mtb■a•MIN■11, coalWa•MI. day of Kislev, according to the 2,150 years. ancient Hebrew calendar. At first the rabbinical academy Holiday Greetings This year it will fall on the of Rabbi Shammai advocated that Holiday Greetings week of Dec. 4 to 12. In America, the order of kindling the lights Hanukah Greetings and in the State of Israel, and every- should be reversed, that on the Best Wishes to where else where Jews are to be first night all the eight candles found, eight little orange Hanuk- should be lit in a sudden blaze of kah candles will be lit on the glory to illuminate the advent of eight nights. the festival. 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