Christmas tree
Memo to one and all: It IS a Christmas tree!
If I follow the dictates of PC, I’d be lighting candles on a holiday candelabra, not on what it actually is — a Hanukkah menorah.
Christmas
Pick a card, a Christmas card
I sometimes think I am the last person in the world who sends out Christmas cards (also Hanukkah cards). But since I get cards from friends and relatives, I know that’s not true. Christmas is the largest “card time” of the year, with about 2 billion being sent. That’
Hanukkah
Here comes Hanukkah, no matter how you spell it
The religious scholars tell us (Jews) that Hanukkah (the holiday formerly known as Chanukah) is not among the important holidays on the Jewish calendar. So why does it get so much prominence, starting at sundown, 4:51 Thursday on the East Coast? And why do Jewish holidays begin at night