"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde --
Proverbs 11:25   Sunday, December 09, 2012  Chappy Chanukah
Posted by Jill | 1:34 PM  Lewis Black had it right; that great
untold deprivation that is the Jewish December. Oh sure,
retailers have elevated a relatively minor Jewish festival into
some kind of separate-but-equal Christmas in order to bring in
some of that fabled Jewish money. But no matter how hard some
intrepid souls try to turn dreidel into a hip bar sport:
...it's still, as Lewis Black says, just a top. I mean, when was
the last time you decided to spend a fun evening at a Jewish
pub? And what would you drink there, Manischewitz instead of
Smithwicks? Slivovitz? Nothing says Fun Times quite like plum
brandy, right? I mean seriously...these are people who for
thousands of years have differentiated themselves from those
shikker goyin to the point of writing a song about it, you think
now we're going to start opening pubs so young hipsters can play
competitive dreidel? I hardly think