Rabbi David Geffen’s Chanukah Message for 2024
For our Chanukah holiday issue, we invited members of our community to share their responses.
Rabbi David Geffen is a native Atlantan and Conservative rabbi who lives in Jerusalem.
Atlanta Jewry has always loved Chanukah with all their hearts
You can read about it in Bauman’s classic how it all starts
So now Chanukah 5725 has arrived with such happiness and joy
We celebrate, old folks and every wonderful Jewish girl and boy
Our blessing on this Chanukah has the good and the bad
The special moments of the chag but also the losses so sad
Light your candles, display them too for all antisemites to see
From your hate your killing we stand proud we’ll never flee
I am that little boy so proud that I am born and Jewish Atlanta bred
I love Israel but when it comes down to it in dear old Dixie I tread
Have a spectacular Chanukah its light keeps us alive
Spinning dreidels singing tunes we all love but mostly make us strive
Rabbi David Geffen is a native Atlantan and Conservative rabbi who lives in Jerusalem.
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