New year, new light, new life

(JNS) — Hey, does anybody still make New Year’s resolutions?

Maybe you do, and yours goes something like mine, “My New Year’s resolution this year is to keep the resolutions I made last year!”

My friend said that his goes like this, “My New Year’s resolution is to have a fat bank account and a skinny body. Last year, I got mixed up.”

Most people I know have long stopped making New Year’s resolutions because they know it doesn’t work. They just go “in one year and out the other!”

In much of the world today, especially for us Jews in Israel and around the world, people are living with uncertaint...