{"id":248,"date":"2010-10-22T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/10\/book-giveaway-making-cheshvan-just-a-little-less-bitter.html"},"modified":"2010-10-22T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T16:29:19","slug":"book-giveaway-making-cheshvan-just-a-little-less-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/10\/book-giveaway-making-cheshvan-just-a-little-less-bitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Giveaway &#8211; making Cheshvan just a little less bitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are approximately six weeks until Chanukah. We are currently in the month of Cheshvan, often referred to as bitter Cheshvan because it is the only Hebrew month without a holiday. While that might sound like a gift, after the hectic pace of Tishrei, when Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and eight days of Sukkot fall in rapid succession, I&#8217;ve got a better gift. Jewish children&#8217;s books &#8211; for you, dear readers. (And aren&#8217;t you lucky there are so few of you? That makes your odds of winning much better than at those&nbsp;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\">popular<\/a><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\">&nbsp;Jewish parenting blogs<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/Photo%20147.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo 147.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/86\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/Photo 147-thumb-240x180-18752.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Stay tuned every Sunday, when I&#8217;ll write about the book of the week and give the details of the giveaway.&nbsp;And no, I&#8217;m not just giving away our oversupply of picture books, though I ought to.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See you Sunday! And until then, Shabbat Shalom<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are approximately six weeks until Chanukah. We are currently in the month of Cheshvan, often referred to as bitter Cheshvan because it is the only Hebrew month without a holiday. 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