Christmas day saw the first observance of on the Vineyard of the Jewish feast of lights, or Chanukah.

When we gather at the Hebrew Center this Friday night at 5:30 p.m. for the seventh night of Hanukkah, each person will light seven small candles.

When I met Johnny Mayhew, my future husband, he had just returned to Brown University to finish his education after three and a half years as a World War II Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific.

Winter arrived early this year, rolling in late last week on a polar express as if delivered straight from the North Pole.