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The Almond Trees are Growing

January 21, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 10 Comments

Happy New Year!!!!!

Don’t be so surprised. Because today is one of the four new years that exist in the Hebrew calendar. (The others are the first day of Nisan, right before Passover, which is the new year for kings and festivals; the first day of Elul, the new year for tithing; and the first of Tishrei, which we all know as Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.) Tu B’Shvat, today’s new year, is when the earliest blooming trees in the State of Israel begin their next fruit-bearing cycle.

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MLK would be 90

January 15, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

Today is actually Martin Luther King’s birthday. (No, it’s not next Monday. That’s just the convenient choice the government makes to provide a 3 day weekend.) Had he not been murdered (and, of course, still alive), he would be 90 today.

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So, this is Christmas

December 25, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

Merry Christmas.

Now that we got that out of the way (I could have wished you season’s greetings, just to piss off TheDonald, TheRyan, and MitchWhatMeWorry. But, I’ve never done that. Because I am wishing you greetings for your holiday.)

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Dawn to Dusk

December 18, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

A minor fast day.

“What’s that?”, you ask? We Jews have two major fast days. The first one you’ve all heard about- Yom Kipur, the Day of Atonement. This is one decreed by the Supreme Being, where we request divine forgiveness for the things that we didn’t quite perform well over the past year. The commandment is to fast from dusk on one day to 40 minutes after day’s end the next day. (Yes, that means at least 25 hours without food or water.)

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The first Chanuka?

December 6, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

So, it’s Chanuka. Moreover, tomorrow night (Shabat) and the next day (from Friday night through Sunday at dusk) are also another holiday, the new moon (Rosh Chodesh) of Tevet.

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We lit the menora!

December 3, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

Today is the first day of Chanuka. (That means last night was the first night of the holiday.) For those of you who follow the Gregorian calendar, you would say the holiday is arriving early. Not as early as it did a few years ago, when it landed on Thanksgiving- but pretty early, nevertheless. (Chanuka always falls on the 25th day of Kislev, though, on our calendar.)

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Small Business Saturday

November 23, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 3 Comments

It’s Small Business Saturday tomorrow.

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Another award????

November 20, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

WooHee!

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11th of the 11th of the 18th

November 9, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

Today is the first day of the new month of Kislev. (It is actually the second day of the Rosh Chodesh [new moon] celebration, but that’s a talk for another day.) Which means that 24 days from today, we Jews will begin our holiday of Chanuka, the celebration of lights.

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The First Tuesday in November

November 6, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

I know, I know. You’re fed up with hearing how important it is to vote today.

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