| Sounds simple, doesn’t it? For me, however, | | | | looked in several gift stores, with no luck. |
| when I needed to buy a menorah, it was a very, | | | | Assuming the company that made that particular |
| very big deal. I was looking for just the right | | | | model was out of business, I forgot my search |
| one for a long time, and now that I’ve finally | | | | until 2008, when my daughter’s child was just |
| found it, I want to share the good news: | | | | old enough to be given his special menorah. This |
| It’s easy, once you know where to look. | | | | time, I looked online -- and discovered not only an |
| I’m not some kind of art expert, or a | | | | unbelievable boom in Judaica on offer on the |
| collector of menorahs, or anything like that. | | | | Internet, but…a huge selection of menorahs. |
| Here’s my story: When I was a child, we | | | | And, best of all, I found the identical model at |
| kids had our own special menorah. After the | | | | JudaicaGiftsOnline.com, made in Israel, my |
| family ceremony each night, we’d light our | | | | daughter had had so many years before. It was |
| own menorah just before bedtime. When my | | | | worth the wait to see the look on her face when |
| daughter was small, she had her own menorah, | | | | she saw it! |
| too. | | | | I was telling some friends this story recently, and |
| I’d bought it in Israel, where we were living | | | | a few of them suggested I should post it on the |
| for a few years, and when we moved back to | | | | Internet. That’s why I’ve written this, in |
| the US, her menorah somehow got lost. She was | | | | the hope it will alert you -- and others who might |
| devastated. I looked in all the Jewish stores but | | | | be unaware of the terrific selection available online |
| couldn’t find the same model; she, being a | | | | – that the best place to buy a menorah or |
| child, refused a substitute. We never talked about | | | | other quality Judaica items is on the Internet. |
| it again, but on my one trip to Israel after that, I | | | | |