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.]
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Those must have been terrific donuts, if, after 40 years, you still express a real fondness for them.
Colgate University had 2000 students, all male. That is 500 more people than live in the village of Hamilton, New York where the university is located. Needless to say, the culinary options were severely limited, so anything sent ‘from home’ was highly prized and fondly remembered.