Lori Moss has quite the extensive Menorah collection. She says she has about 85 menorahs, and much of her collection was started by her father-in-law, who would gift one to her each year. Each Menorah shares a special place in her heart, and each has a beautiful memory. Her collection is uni…
That time we went to Florida in December and forgot to bring a menorah...
My father visited Israel in 1988, right after they got divorced with my mother, and one year before Communism fell in Hungary. He grew up without any Jewish experiences because his Holocaust-survivor parents didn't want to keep any Jewish traditions after the war. He fell in love with Israel…
Shortly after David and I married, 37 years ago we received this Hanukiya from Marion and Raymond Garmel. Raymond has purchased it on one of his trips to Israel. We have used it ever since. I have missed Israel so much in those days , and even today. The slender amphora , the olive branch ,t…
Hanukkah Menorah lighting – Westerbork Transit Camp, Holland 1943
My mother, Ruth Ellen, was born in Cologne, Germany in 1929. As a child she witnessed Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, in November 1938. Through their window on the second floor the little girl watched as her fathe…
