Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends. I miss the latkes and jelly doughnuts my roommates received for the holiday at college. [Their grandmothers were afraid they wouldn’t celebrate or couldn’t get “real” food at that terrible Baptist university.] It was a great break.
One of the nice things about Hanukkah is that there are established “gifts”, so you don’t have to rack your brains about what to get: a card and gelt covers just about everyone.
General background at Wikipedia’s entry for Hanukkah and even more at Chabad’s Chanukah page.
[Note: on the Jewish calendar the day changes at sundown, not midnight, so it’s now the 5th.]
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Not so much true on the gifting being restricted to gelt and cards. Usually lots of articles of clothing seem to be given in my family.
Christmas is a little sadder because of the lack of deep-fried donuts.
Hmm, must run in families, Michael, because my friends tend to stick with the gelt, chocolate for the kids and real for others, although I was never at a last night celebration.
I admit I love real, fresh jelly donuts, LK, perhaps because too many latkes turn out like a hash brown order at Waffle House.
scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced… don’t be dissing the hash browns. back when i had to travel at a moment’s notice, arriving in strange cities at odd hours of the day and night, i could always always depend on waffle house to feed me, and those hash browns with everything but the kitchen added were manna from heaven.
I’m not dissing the hash browns, but they aren’t latkes. I wish Waffle Houses would offer butter and maple syrup, even if they charged more for it, I’d be happy to pay.