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AmorRoark

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We had to go to 2 Wal-Marts, 2 Walgreens and 2 local grocery stores before we could find Hannukah candles last night (we ran out). What does this mean? People aren't appreciating the Jews enough!!

Dradle dradlel!

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(taken last year in support of the Giants... or America... or both!)

Go Team Jew!
 
I like your hannukah holder.
We've got an antique silver one, but a few years ago it got put away in the confusion after the festive season and it's still not turned up. Oi vey!

Happy Hannukah!
 
I was raised Jewish (until the age of 14 when I officially denounced my faith in Judaism) so Chanukah was always a family thing growing up (as was Christmas since my father was a converted Irish Catholic)

There are time when I miss it. Not the faith, but the traditions and such.

Chanukah Sameach everyone.
 
Put on your yalmulka, here comes hanukkah
Its so much fun-akkah to celebrate hanukkah,

Hanukkah is the festival of lights,
Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.

When you feel like the only kid in town without a x-mas tree, heres a list of
People who are jewish, just like you and me:

David lee roth lights the menorrah,
So do james caan, kirk douglas, and the late dinah shore-ah

Guess who eats together at the karnickey deli,
Bowzer from sha-na-na, and arthur fonzerrelli.

Paul newmans half jewish; goldie hawns half too,
Put them together--what a fine lookin' jew!

You don't need deck the halls or jingle bell rock
Cause you can spin the dreidl with captain kirk and mr. spock--both jewish!

Put on your yalmulka, it's time for hanukkah,
The owner of the seattle super sonic-ahs celebrates hanukkah.

O.j. simpson-- not a jew!
But guess who is...hall of famer rod carew--(he converted!)

We got ann landers and her sister dear abby,
Harrison fords a quarter jewish--not too shabby!

Some people think that ebeneezer scrooge is,
Well, he's not, but guess who is:all three stooges.

So many jews are in show biz--
Tom cruise isn't, but I heard his agent is.

Tell your friend veronica, it's time you celebrate hanukkah
I hope I get a harmonica, on this lovely, lovely hanukkah.

So drink your gin-and-tonic-ah, and smoke your mara-juanic-ah,
If you really, really wanna-kah, have a happy, happy, happy, happy
Hanukkah¡¡. happy hanukka!
 
i got my first presents last night. yay for parents starting hannukah late.

i got a shirt and a dvd.
 
Party on my jewish brothers of another mother! As long as nobody busts out the dreidel song, that shit is so stale you'd break your teeth on it.

I long ago stopped getting presents from my rents, but i always manage to have my own little festival of lights regardless :)

When I get married, this is gonna be the compromise I make with my mom between a nice jewish wedding and a rager: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqoofwmQF5g
 
My wife and I didn't do Hanukkah this year. It's really a festival geared more towards kids than anything else. It's not the big deal in Judaism that Christmas is in Christianity, or at least it wasn't originally.
 
Hannukah was a very odd bastardized holiday where I grew up - my neighborhood was 50% Jewish (we had off of school for the high holidays! yay jewish kids!=D), but as it was a more ritzy area, the Jewish families felt the need to compete with xmas (because by god if those damn gentile kids were gonna get stuff, their kids would too! lol), so my friends always got 7 days of really lame gifts and then 1 big one usually - my best friend in middle school always got socks, pencils, and other school supplies. Lots of the houses in the neighborhood put hannukah lights up (which, really, makes more sense, lol), and I always like them better because I think the blue and white are far more tasteful than the nasty mismatched mess that most people put up for xmas, lol. Lots of kids I knew also persuaded their parents to get a hannukah bush, which was really just a small, oddly-shaped xmas tree from the leftovers at the tree lot. =D
 
^ Hanukkah Bush?? That's a fucking stretch. At that point you're pretty much celebrating Christmas.

My mother in law doesn't give a shit if Christmas is actually an amalgamation of winter solstice traditions from all over the ancient world, including the near east, as Capstone alludes to. All she cares is that it's not thoroughly Jewish, therefore it's befouled.
 
if i celebrated Hannukah i'd do it like i do every other.. get ripped as hell but in this case for mad days str8. It'd be the best holiday ever! This statement is null & void really when ur blasted all the time.. :d
 
^ Wow, as if wiggers and wapanese and windians weren't bad enough, now we've got webrews.

That's really funny considering only a generation or two ago, a whole lot of Jews in the US found it advantageous to NOT flaunt the fact that they were Jewish. You saw a lot of anglicized names amongst famous ones. In fact, you used to see most immigrants or first generation Americans who could blend into white society striving to be as un-ethnic as possible. Before I married one, I had no appreciation of the depth of the bitter controversy that exists among American Jews over religiousness vs. secularization, because it's tied up with issues of assimilation, pride in one's heritage, and ethnic identity.
 
I'm part german, irish and hebrew, apparently.
I must be part hewbrew cause everyone on my fathers side has huge noses, that I got too.;|
Even if I definetly was, I would never go jewish.
 
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