Doron Shalev, PhD

12/19/2025

Hanukkah and Shabbat overlap tonight!✨ According to Jewish law, fires cannot be kindled on Shabbat. Therefore, the menorah is lit before the Shabbat candles.

On Saturday night, the candles are lit after the sun goes down and Shabbat has ended, but there are differing opinions regarding whether the menorah should be lit before or after the havdalah rituals are completed.

What’s your custom? Tell us in the comments ⬇️

12/18/2025

Look what just arrived!

Gotta love getting presents in the mail! From my French friend who lives in Germany; good thing it’s in French because my German isn’t very good. 😊 I got so hungry looking through this cookbook!

(I also see I need a haircut - don’t I look shaggy! lol)

12/17/2025

Want to know how I remember the dreidel game?

There are four Hebrew letters - nun (נ), gimmel (ג), hey (ה), and shin (ש).

Nun = Nothing, Gimmel = Good, Hey = Half, and Shin = Sh*tty.

Don’t laugh - it’s my process. And if you struggled remembering what each letter meant before, I bet now you’ll remember. Don’t ask me for the mnemonics I used to memorize my organic chemistry functional groups in undergrad…some would definitely get me “cancelled” in today’s day and age! lol

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

The world’s oldest hatred has tried for millennia, but never succeeded, at extinguishing the world’s brightest flame: the flame of the Jewish people.

And it never will.

12/17/2025