Wait. Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day this year? December 25th! Thank God! Finally! Can we please keep this up?!
My extended family is a mishmash of Jews and Catholics, all committed to their own customs and traditions. At long last, we can stop running to different homes to commemorate different holidays on different days. I deeply appreciate this divine operational efficiency.
In my own home, I’ve done a few 360s over the years. I was brought up Jewish but quickly absorbed my mother’s unspoken mandate that any overt signs of Judaism were . . . gauche. (Shh!) Was it because her family fled Germany and Hungary for Hartford and Ohio and they felt compelled to assimilate? Perhaps. But still.
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