First night tonight!

12/1/2010 10:52:07 AM

do you people really celebrate this second-rate holiday?

12/1/2010 11:02:01 AM

Jews, on my TWW?

12/1/2010 11:04:02 AM

Interesting story on Hanukkah in America on NPR this morning: http://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131695642/scholar-hanukkah-more-modest-holiday-outside-u-s

This was the only Jew smilie I could find:

12/1/2010 11:07:23 AM

^^ it's more common than you think.

12/1/2010 11:09:19 AM

I agree that it is second rate. It's not really a holiday, more so a historical commemoration.

During the time that the Greeks had seized Jerusalem, the Jews were not allowed to study Torah or celebrate their holidays. When they fought back and defeated the Greeks, they had an 8-day festival to make up for missing Sukkot in the fall. So now we have two different 8-day long festivals every year.

The present giving is mainly an Americanized thing so Jewish children would stop bitching about not getting presents around Christmas time.




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12/1/2010 11:24:37 AM

Hanukkah party on Thursday. Gonna be ballin'

12/1/2010 11:53:30 AM

What! I thought this was next week!

12/1/2010 12:06:48 PM

nope.

so drink your gin and tonica, and smoke your marijuanaca



by the way, have you ever thought about just how Jewish of a game dreidle is? You either win all, win half, lose one, or nothing happens.

1/2 chance of winning something
1/4 chance of losing (and you only lose a tiny bit)

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12/1/2010 1:20:26 PM

I should make some apple challah this weekend

12/1/2010 2:14:05 PM

I'm making tie-dye challah for Friday night (bake rainbow sprinkles on the inside and they melt to create an awesome effect)

12/1/2010 3:21:22 PM

I lit candles last night, I'm curious as to how many people will try to figure out what's going on again this year.
Tie-dye challah sounds fantastic... you could add a different color to each piece before it's braided, that'd be interesting.
And it's the wrong season for apple challah, that's a rosh hashanah thing.

12/2/2010 1:00:59 PM

^I hope the Hillel party goes well, my first time missing it in 6 years

#2


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12/2/2010 6:14:18 PM

No need to mindlessly provoke

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12/2/2010 7:24:40 PM

Quote :

"So now we have two different 8-day long festivals every year."

sweet!

12/2/2010 7:45:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJCSR4MuhU

I want to give them all a hug, but they might be shomer negiah. Lame.

12/3/2010 12:14:19 PM

^^^really? wtf, dude.

night 3!


And extra candles for Shabbat!


SHOMER FUCKIN SHABBOS!
[image]http://I don't roll on shabbos from The Big Lebowski starring John Goodman Steve Buscemi [/image]

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12/3/2010 12:49:19 PM

jackie chanukah?

12/3/2010 1:03:13 PM

I thought this was later on in the month, closer to christmas time.

12/3/2010 1:30:05 PM

Jewish holidays are set on a different calendar that goes by cycles of the moon.

Our year is shorter, so each year the holidays get earlier and earlier.

Then we'll have a leap year, where instead of just adding an extra day, we add a whole extra month (which again, is a single cycle of the moon).

So sometimes Chanukah will overlap Christmas, and every so often it can even overlap Thanksgiving. This is a leap year (the extra month is added in the spring) so next year Chanukah will be much later in December.

12/3/2010 1:35:04 PM

oh

12/3/2010 1:47:28 PM

missed #4 last night...was too busy celebrating!

12/5/2010 7:12:07 AM

Just scoured facebook for a picture of our menorah. I just dug it out of the closest recently. Its a dinky little electronic one. You can screw the lights in or out to light them up or not. It has fallen into disrepair in recent years as you can see.



Happy Hallowanukahmas to all!

12/5/2010 7:44:10 AM

#5

12/5/2010 5:44:36 PM

Missed a night again
#6

12/7/2010 10:04:10 AM

12/7/2010 12:12:13 PM

I celebrated with a glass of fresh squeezed orange jews this morning!

12/7/2010 12:13:13 PM

^^that picture has been circulating all week

12/7/2010 12:51:51 PM

Happy Chanukah!!

Where the hebrew wolf at?

12/7/2010 1:10:33 PM

that's why i didnt make a thread about it, because any image ever found is old

12/7/2010 1:25:01 PM

^^I've been wondering the same thing. There was no turkey wolf on thanksgiving either.
qntmfred fail


but here is a jewish wolf for you:



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12/7/2010 1:26:47 PM

Smoke your marijuanaka.

12/7/2010 1:28:51 PM

I love Hanukkah!!!!

12/7/2010 2:14:12 PM

People still carry on this archaic tradition without the help of archaic people?

12/7/2010 2:56:47 PM

#7...only one more

12/7/2010 10:28:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V75DKM_bIY

12/7/2010 10:30:26 PM

It's not pronounced "CHanukah".

12/8/2010 1:41:36 AM

i saw a car on it tonight with a pretty bad ass menorah (on top)

like this, except less tacky because it was just a menorah

i saw it right as i was driving past the synagogue across from ravenscroft, which also had its big menorah lit up



[Edited on December 9, 2010 at 12:25 AM. Reason : whoa big pic!!!]

12/9/2010 12:24:46 AM

Was it a minivan? Cuz if so, it was Rabbi Herman's car, he's the head Rabbi at Sharei Israel, the shul you were talking about. He does it every year.
It's a lot less tacky than random reindeer antlers I've seen on people's cars.

12/9/2010 9:25:21 AM