December 4, 2007

Chanukah* 2007.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jim @ 8:56 pm

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I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my Jewish friends a Happy Chanukah. A special Chanukah shout out to my friends Erica and Elisson, two very special and very cool Joos.

* Also spelled Hanukkah.

5 Comments »

  1. Thank you so much! Peeps do not get much sweeter, or more primo than you. Keine Verzichte [That’s Google Translatorspeak for “No disclaimers.”].

    🙂

    Happy Hanukkah to you, too. What?? You’re heimishe, aren’t you?

    Comment by Erica — December 4, 2007 @ 10:12 pm

  2. Thanks, Jim.

    Chanukah is, at its very core, a celebration of the Right To Be Different…and let’s face it – we bloggers are about as Different as people ever get…

    Comment by Elisson — December 5, 2007 @ 5:15 am

  3. My daughter, who is Chinese, with an Irish lapsed Catholic father and a Scottish nervous Episcopalian mother from South Carolina, announced yesterday she wanted to become a Jew. When I told her a good deal of study might be involved, she changed her mind and asked if we could just celebrate Chanukah. Far from a theological shout-out to our Semitic brothers and sisters, she was just trying to maneuver us into an additional present cycle. Still, it’s a move I’ve concidered several times when the house came down. The sense of community and tradition, the ferocious life of the mind. Pastrami. Latkes. A high cholesterol combination of anxiety and comfort, confidence and introspection. Also, for a boy who never heard of Jews until he moved to Lakewood, NJ at the age of 11, still a little bit exotic. If I had an ember of faith, I would do it in a heartbeat.

    Happy Chanukah, everyone.

    Comment by Sluggo — December 5, 2007 @ 2:58 pm

  4. Huzzah! Sluggo lives!

    Comment by Elisson — December 9, 2007 @ 6:31 pm

  5. It’s funny, ethnically speaking, what Sluggo says, because I am a Joo**, but am told that I drink like I’m Scottish, and sometimes wish I were Irish. Also, I eat Chinese food, on Christmas.

    **Sometimes also spelled “Jew”.

    Comment by Erica — December 11, 2007 @ 11:00 am

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