I LUV CHANNUKAH

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Only 3 sundowns days to get yr gelt?
do you have yr latkes recipe ready
Have you polished the menorah , bought new candles ?
come on get it together folks !

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Potato pancakes frickin' rule.

― bnw, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When is Chanukah this year?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to play dreidel (aka the Jewish festive crapshoot) with Sara Spiegel when they were doing Hanukkah. I think she was making up rules as we went along, 'cos she got all the sweets.

The gelt thing was ridiculous. Some of the girls in my junior high were serious Jewish American Princesses (one girl's family founded Baskin Robbins, another's folks had a Warhol silkscreen of her mum) and the morning after they brought Hanukkah on, there was a strange epidemic of Eclipse rainbow jumpers in French lessons matched with new, stiff-as- cardboard Calvin Klein jeans.

― suzy, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sunset of the eigth for eight days .

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LATKES! Yum yum yum.

― DG, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

JEW POWAH!

― chaki, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best part of Hannukah = short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

― turner, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

turner not to be a pedant but the c is important.

― anthony, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony is criticising someone else's spelling? The world has turned upside down. None of my Jewish relatives do Channukah, they are too busy Xmas shopping.

― Emma, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why is the C important?

― Ally, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, why? it's kind of like arguing about the correct spellings for various curries (rogan josh v. rogon gohst) which are phonetic. Anyway the St Jewish Park consensus spelling was Hanukkah, in NYC it's Chanukah.

― suzy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

its a pronnuction issue. in hebrew you have to pronunce intial hs with a small cough , the best example is chutzpah.

― anthony, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's Chanukhah about then?

Festival of Light, or something?

Why is it so far away from the winter solstice?

― DV, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's one of those controversy issues though that comes with, as priorly said, phonetically spelt translations of non-cyrillic languages. My boyfriend's Israeli, he don't care how it's spelled. It's just something that's not 100% agreed upon, it's like Chinese spelling. I've never seen it with the "ch" and then "nn" though, you know.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my menorah is polished regularly.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight years pass...

YAY EXCITED!

― quincie, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

Latkes and or donuts

Sufganiyot

In Israel, the traditional Chanukah food is the jelly donut

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)

Latkes for me, with sour cream (applesauce pshaw)! And I got yuppy gelt from Whole Foods.

― quincie, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

I'm having an oily foods party this Sat, with doughnuts, latkes and (Hungarian) langos, washed down with some mulled wine

― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 11:07 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120404296.html

I can't believe I haven't gotten an invitation to the White House Chanukah party...

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

Ummmmmmm what is going on here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/us/politics/09hanukkah.html?_r=1

― quincie, Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

Just in time for the best-songs-of-the-decade lists too.

― EDB, Thursday, 10 December 2009 16:49 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/dining/09hanu.html?em

Trendy chef Chanukah meals (many from/for those in mixed religion marriages)

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

From the article Quincie linked-

At one point, Mr. Hatch unbuttons his white dress shirt to expose the golden mezuzah necklace he wears every day. Mezuzahs also adorn the doorways of his homes in Washington and Utah. Mr. Hatch keeps a Torah in his Senate office.

“Not a real Torah, but sort of a mock Torah,” he said. “I feel sorry I’m not Jewish sometimes.”

Weird.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know any *jews* who wear mezuzah necklaces--what the hell is this doing on the neck of a MORMON?

― quincie, Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

Also what exactly is a "mock Torah"? Srsly have no idea what that even means.

― quincie, Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:53 (sixteen years ago)

replica?
weird.
also mezuzah necklace?!?!?!?!?

― tehresa, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

I know, right? Worn by a mormon? Who seems to have a serious case of Jew-envy?

― quincie, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

mormons are basic evil jews already

― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:54 (sixteen years ago)

― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

this reminds me of how judaism became really trendy at my college and it was like cool to have a jew fetish

― tehresa, Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

For Hanukkah, Mr. Gray, who is Episcopalian...

lol'd so hard @ this

― Lamp, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

need a menorah!!

― 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOKE (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

For Hanukkah, Ms. Quincie, who is Episcopalian . . . bought a menorah

No really I did. It features silver pomegranates and is awesome!

― quincie, Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

Still, he said: “I see great compatibility with Irish and Jewish cooking. In both traditions you slowly braise meats and vegetables together so that toothless grandmothers can chew them.”

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

First night of Chanukah Friday

Enjoy

― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 December 2009 13:50 (sixteen years ago)

hey guys, help me cheat!
my dad snapped this at bagel place, my sister said there's something wrong with it.
she's promised $1,000,000 in gelt to the first person who guesses.
i am stumped.

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/IMG_01411.jpg

― tehresa, Friday, 11 December 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

menoray acquired

― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

is it cuz there should only be two candles lit today?

― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

i thought that but that can't be it...

― tehresa, Friday, 11 December 2009 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

well damn. that was what she was thinking (plus that it shouldn't have been lit yet since it was only morning and not sundown). pshht. everyone knows decorative menorahs (and other holiday decorations) are generally not that accurate.

― tehresa, Saturday, 12 December 2009 03:12 (sixteen years ago)

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