Word: hanukkah
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...older he grows, the harder it gets for Captain Midlife to take this ( season. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. Five weeks of souped-up revels strung out like dead leaf fires. Not that January is any great shakes either, with its glass-eye skies threatening to shatter; or loony February; or March blowing about one's head like some parent ranting in a never-cleaned-up room. Still, it is this season that gets the Captain down, and up, and down again. Poor Captain Midlife. Can anybody out there lend him a hand...
Music and Puppets for Christmas and Hanukkah: with Jean Tibbils, Main Library Children's Room, Copley Square, Saturday...
...some, Hanukkah at college just isn't the same as Hanukkah at home. "No one makes latkes for me," said Beth Gamulka '89 of Wigglesworth. "The whole family is not there to sing, and I have to light the candles by myself...
...Hanukkah commemorates the victory of Jewish patriots over oppressive Hellenistic forces and the rededication of their temple. Candles are traditionally burned to recall the miracle of a day's supply of holy oil burning for eight days. In addition, foods fried in oil, such as latkes (potato pancakes), are caten. Children often celebrate by playing games involving the use of a special top, or dreidel...
Some Jews feel that Hanukkah is misunderstood because of its proximity to Christmas. "The basic problem is that Hanukkah is a minor holiday and Christmas is a major holiday, and it's not right to equate the two," said Mather House resident Linda S. Lourie '87. "The customs for Christmas are not the same as those for Hanukkah. It's unfortunate that the holidays coincide," she said...