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  • At Chanukah, finding light in a time of illness and darkness

    Elicia Brown|Dec 8, 2017

    NEW YORK (JTA)-It is the "the witching hour," around 4:30 p.m., when darkness descends swiftly on the streets of New York, and exhausted children and their parents tend to quarrel. But my son Joel, now 12, is full of good cheer. He keeps a steady bounce in his step. He smiles into the wind. "The black sky at this early hour," Joel explains, his tall frame swaying in sync with his springing step, "means that the Chanukah lights will be coming soon." For a parent, it is a sweet moment like so...