How to Spell Chanukah and Other Holiday Dilemmas. Quotes

“That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the darkness of cruel wishes,..? Have you forgiven? Have you lived up to the standards of your one and only heart?”
― Emily Franklin, How to Spell Chanukah and Other Holiday Dilemmas.

“It is still possible, after all, to forge a covenant that binds us not to God in obedience but to one another in mercy. We need only choose, this year, to keep the flame lit...”
― Emily Franklin, How to Spell Chanukah...and Other Holiday Dilemmas: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights