Equanimity is not resignation or apathy.
The lines of “inside” and “outside” are not always clear, as a second-generation American and Jewish convert attests.
A healing ritual for Hanukkah
The Maccabees, at least in their early days, were standard-bearers of the fundamentalist camp.
I have come to value this holiday, precisely because of all the assimilationist pressures we face at this time of year.
This Hanukkah 2023 ritual acknowledges the incompleteness of joy while captives are being held.