Comments on: Eight Video Nights of Hanukkah: Seventh night https://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058 Cutting straight to the point Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058/comment-page-1#comment-30070 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:47:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058#comment-30070 Long Rifle, well, it’s just fun to put up Chanukah posts. It’s actually a very minor holiday in Judaism. We celebrate it more because it’s one of our few victories (“They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!”) and also because it was a huge victory against assimilation and against being forced to worship other religions.

It’s become bigger in America partly as a result of Christmas. The timing of the two holidays has encouraged American Jewish parents to give presents to their children and make a bigger deal of the holiday than we used to do.

I have a sermon on acculturation that a friend of mine, who is a rabbi, gave. I think I’ll ask him for permission to put it up.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058/comment-page-1#comment-30069 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:11:36 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058#comment-30069 Sarah, it’s not YOUR fault. It’s Albino Blacksheep for making their Flash embed so obnoxious.

]]> By: Long_Rifle https://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058/comment-page-1#comment-30067 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:39:34 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058#comment-30067 It’s quite interesting being here and seeing how Hanukkah is celebrated. Beautiful is an understatement. Quite nice. Much better than seeing “merry X-mas and seeing santa clause and his merry frigging elves.

I wish my fellow “Christians” held their own holiday in such high regards.

Happy Hanukkah! May God continue to bestow his blessings on his people.

PS: And learning to spell Hanukkah isn’t a bad thing either!

]]> By: Sarah G. https://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058/comment-page-1#comment-30064 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:20:51 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/10/4058#comment-30064 Dang I’m sorry about the flash being so obnoxious.

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