A Different Light: A Pluralist Anthology : the Big Book of HanukkahDevora Publishing, 2000 - 334 pages Hanukkah thoughts and perspectives by such contemporary Jewish thinkers as David Hartman, Irving Greenberg, Chaim Potok, Daniel Gordis, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe. These pluralistic perspectives help explain how different communities and denominations find their particular identity symbolised in the light of the Menorah. |
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