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[heidi]

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! In this time of copious press coverage of the various kinds of monitoring conducted by the current administration, via the NSA, of , you might enjoy paying attention to a slightly different kind of monitoring of communications - the NORAD Santa-tracking system. It's slightly less inoccuous, I think.

Happy Hanukah to all who join me in celebrating it! You might enjoy a very humerous take on how XMas would be celebrated if the holiday had been created under Jewish law.

Obviously, it's meant in good and cheerful spirits. Also in the spirit of the season, Michael Lerner of Tikun wrote up the history of Hanukah and its meaning today. It gave me some food for thought this morning, as I gathered the ingredients for ginger cookies - we buy our latkes because (a) Epicure makes them better than I do, and (b) cooking with hot oil and kids around makes me jittery.

To those who celebrated Yule this past week, I hope you had a peaceful one, and to those who begin Kwanza on Monday, I hope you have a beautiful and light-filled one.

I'm off to clean off the Menorah and take out the dreidel collection, which my grandfather began over 75 years ago.

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[bribitribbit.livejournal.com]

Happy Hanukah! ♥

(And I always watch the Santa tracking thing. My dad thinks I'm too old for it... Pah, what does he know? :P)

[ceilidh]

Ahaha I like the rules about 'kosher' Christmas trees. ;))

[ziasudra-fic.livejournal.com]

lol! Although perhaps this is the Ashkenazi edition of the Christmas mitzvot? Methinks a Sephardic version is hidden still somewhere... ;)

For some reason, footnotes 41 and 42 tickled me the most ^_^

What does one greet each other with for Chanukah? (C)hag sameach? Chanukah tovah? I've always loved the Chanukah story, so much more wonder-filled than Rudolph or Santa Claus.

-- have a wonderful Chanukah!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

As of this minute, "Have a wonder-filled Chanukah!"

Thanks for the inspiration.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

And a happy happy Hanukah to you and yours, Heidi!

In the spirit of my family's traditional atheist, christ-free christmas, I am sitting in my dad's car stealing the stray wifi signal from the driveway! And that is my expression of goodwill toward men and all that. ;)

(I got Max an accordion. Soon we will all be enjoying the tunes he belts out, I'm sure, since we exchange gifts this evening rather than tomorrow morning. Good thing I stocked up on the tylenol.)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Phone post of his playing, please?

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh, good idea. I'll get on that first thing tomorrow. :)

[nyourdrms.livejournal.com]

a) great icon

b) I loff latkes with sour cream, no applesauce

c) We've been watching the NORAD tracking Santa every since my kids were two and three. They love it!

Happy Holidays to you and your family!!

T

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

I hope you and your family have a lovely, lovely Hanukah! (And the Xmas laws are a hoot.)

We'll visit the NORAD site tonight with Meg; this is the first year she "gets" the Santa concept.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for posting that Tikkun article. You know...I learned the song that begins "Not by might, and not by power...but by spirit alone, shall all men live in peace" totally out of context (at summer camp, I suspect), and I had no idea it had anything to do with Hanukkah.

*smacks forehead*

Now I do. *G*

Happy Hanukkah, Heidi!

See, that's the real reason for "Happy Holidays"...

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

...'cause goyim like myself can't spell "Hanukah" without a dictionary and a rabbi. ;]

Happy one anyway! And if you didn't see it...the directions for making an R2-D2 "droidel"...

[kimmparker.livejournal.com]

HAPPY HANUKKAH!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Ok enough procrastination (finally fisnied wrapping presents) back to getting ready. Apparently Midnight Mass actulaly starts at 9--eeekkkkkkk

KIM

[simons-flower.livejournal.com]

Damn it! You said dreidel.

I have a little dreidel,
I made it out of clay,
And when it's dry and ready,
Dreidel I will play.

Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel....

I swear, every year I get that song stuck in my head. But only that part. My husband torments me now by having our rugrat sing it.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I have a version from Barenaked Ladies if you want...

[macloudt.livejournal.com]

My kids and I have been tracking Santa all evening, and I've only just put them to bed. However I'll be checking in regularly to see where he's headed! A happy Hanukah to you and your family. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_almagitana/]

Happy Hanukah!!

[aphoenix2007.livejournal.com]

Happy holidays to you too! :)

[story645.livejournal.com]

Happy Hannukah! And very cool that you have a dreidel collection, and that it began 75 years ago. I like the letter of approbation too much,

[siyahsaclikiz.livejournal.com]

Hag Sameah!