Word: chanukah
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This year, I went home looking forward to spending some quality time in our cozy kitchen cooking up goodies for both Thanksgiving and Chanukah. When I arrived home, the cupboards instantly reminded me of a holiday horror--my parents had turned health conscious. There was no sugar (my father's a diabetic), no cholestoral (he has high cholestoral), no salt (high blood pressure) and nothing of flavor in the house (no tastebuds either...
...Chanukah...
...Chanukah may seem at first to be a relatively innocuous celebration of a miracle. When Judah Maccabee rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem all those years ago, he only had enough oil to light the eternal light (which is supposed to be lit at all times) for one night. Instead, the oil miraculously lasted for eight nights until they could find some more...
...also a celebration of a military victory over the repressive King Antiochus and Assyrian Greeks. In today's age of political correctness, any military victory is supposed to be recognized as oppression of some other group. We learned that with Thanksgiving. The PC police should clue in immediately on Chanukah...
...Shamir's Chanukah...