Chanukah was last week. This week’s Thursday Challenge is “LIGHT” (Candle, Reflected, Shiny, Colourful, City Lights,…).

Welcome to JPIX, the blog carnival of Jewish photo bloggers. Click on any of the thumbnails to visit the posts.

Mottel:
 

Mother in Israel showed hikes; Ilana-Davita featured a synagogue window:
  

Leah Lipszyc:
  

Batya:
  

Pesky Settler (two on the left) and Dina in Jerusalem (chanukiah on the right):
    

G6:
  

Mrs. S.:
  

Seraphic Secret, Imabima, Lady-Light and Real Shaliach:
   

Robin (who has just opened an Etsy shop – visit her blog for details):
  

Leora:
  

And some more (by Leora, Mottel and Robin):
  

To participate in a future JPIX blog carnival please send in your links to favorite photos by February 24. You may also send them to jpixcarnival at gmail dot com. Pesky Settler will be hosting a JPIX on February 25. Thanks for volunteering.

Chanukah has come to an end, and all that was left of colorful candles yesterday was bits of red, yellow, blue and white wax. Frume Sarah hosted Haveil Havalim yesterday; reading her blog carnival post can bring a little cheer.

As a reminder, JPIX, the blog carnival of Jewish Photo Bloggers, will appear on this blog on Wednesday. Entries may be submitted using this blog carnival form. Feel free to come back and visit to see the show.

On My Blog

  
  
I had plans to draw a cow and put it on my blog (like when I did the sheep), but this never happened. Can anyone guess why I wanted to put up a cow?

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

• In 1917 children voted against candy.
• Jew Wishes posted her latkes recipe.
• Dreidel photo by G6 and another dreidel photo by Mrs. S.
• Persian cyclamen and other beautiful flowers of the Carmel
• Photo essay by Mother in Israel of Kula forest
• Ilana-Davita asks difficult questions about giving charity.

Attention Jewish Photo Bloggers: JPIX, the blog carnival of Jewish Photo Bloggers, is next Wednesday, December 23. So please send in your links to favorite photos by December 22. You may also send them to jpixcarnival at gmail dot com. And if you are not a Jewish Photo Blogger, you are invited to come back to this blog on December 23 to see the “show.”

Pesky Settler will be hosting a JPIX on February 25. Thanks for volunteering.

Thursday Challenge theme is TOYS (Cars, Dolls, Video Games, Puzzles, Balls, Board Games,…).

• How to Play Dreidel.

Each night of Chanukah we light one more candle, until by the eighth night we have eight candles lit. This is to remember the miracle that happened in the Temple a long time ago, when one little container of oil that should have lasted for only one day lasted for eight. In the photo are four orange candles for the fourth night, and the purple one called the “shamash.” The shamash is an extra one, the helper; the shamash lights the other candles. One can choose any colors; my daughter picked these colors. My sons and husband use an oil chanukiah (menorah), as the one in the Temple used oil.

I’ve been taking many photos of the lights, or as the title of this post declares, I’ve been “playing with fire.” Here’s the photo of the candles on a jar, using the warp tool in Photoshop as instructed in this tutorial on the warp tool effect.