Here at Ageless North Shore we favor the counter-intuitive approach to stories. Why else would we feature Traeger Furs now that spring is upon us? And why feature a furrier at all? Doesn’t that play into the North Shore stereotypes that Ageless often debunks?
Well, as our good friend Walt Whitman used to say; “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Barry Traeger
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The revitalization of Downtown Skokie is a work in progress. Howard Meyer, executive director of the Skokie Chamber of Commerce and Randy Miles, president of IMODS and owner of the Village Inn are working with the Village of Skokie to make it happen.
Randy Miles and Howard Meyer...casual Friday
The Independent Merchants of Downtown Skokie is a nonprofit organization composed of business people, property owners and concerned citizens that propose ideas for downtown development.
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1. Why is Chanukah early this year?
This year Chanukah falls as usual on the 25th day of Kislev in the year 5770 (according to the Jewish calendar).
But seriously folks…Jewish people and their friends will begin their celebration at sundown on Friday, December 11. (Sundown, by the way, is at a depressing 4:01 pm that day.) Reason: the earth revolves around the sun in about 365ΒΌ days. The civil calendar is cool with that and arbitrarily assigns the number of days (28, 30 or 31) to each month.
The Jewish calendar also has a 365 1/4 day year. However, the months are based on the cycle of the moon revolving around the 
earth which takes 29 1/2 days. Do the math and you come up with 12.4 lunar months per year. To keep the months falling at the right time of year, the Jewish calendar is 12 months long with an extra month thrown in occasionally.
For a more detailed explanation of the Jewish calendar, click here.
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