Word: chanukah
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...spirit of what's-sauce-for-the-Christians, some Jews now erect Menorahs, the nine-candle symbols of Chanukah, on public land. This year, for the fourth consecutive time, a giant 30-ft. Menorah was put up by the Hasidic American Friends of Lubavitch in Washington's Lafayette Park, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Many Jews are not pleased, even though no government funds are involved. Says Attorney Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress: "It's unconstitutional. Most of the organized Jewish community doesn't like...
Well, I'm off to two weeks in the sun, so have a white Christmas sucker, happy Chanukah and maybe there will be a few surprises wrapped in Crimson waiting for Harvard sports fans...
...Christian students here, and I thought that the student body as a whole would be sensitive to the needs of minority students. I am going home for Christmas next week. But, at my house, Christmas passes like any other day. I was here during Chanukah, when I would have liked to celebrate my holidays with my family. We non-Christians are not given vacation days to be with our families during the holidays that are important to us. This year Freshman registration was on Rosh Hashanah, one of the High Holy Days for the Jewish people...
...tried the Chanukah route for a while, but I always knew it was a made-up holiday, invented by anxious Jewish parents to mollify their Christmas-hungry offspring. "Look," they were saying, "you don't need any stockings hung by the chimney with care, or presents under the tree. We're gonna give you eight--yes, count'em, eight--different gifts, one for each day of our holiday." It didn't help, of course, that my parents were not big gift-givers. The only thing I remember getting for Chanukah was a picture book about the Feast of Lights...
...celebrate Pearl Harbor Day, Bok lays off all Japanese at Harvard and confines them to Sever 11. To celebrate Chanukah, he lays of all Jews at Harvard. "This will save a lot of money," Bok says, "and besides, they were too goddamned pushy...