"Chag Urim Sameach" from your friends at the Dog Denizens of Genesee Park!
Hanukkah commences tonight at sundown and commemorates the holiday miracle that occurred after the Macabees (Can you hear Ross on Friends tell his son, "There were these people called the Macabees?) discovered that what they calculated as a day's worth of oil lasted for eight days sufficient to purify a Temple that the Greco-Roman persecutors defiled during their jihad against Judaism.
The Goyim population seems fascinated -- if not fixated -- upon the prospect of their Jewish friends receiving presents during each of the eight nights of Hanukkah. Kind of a child's idealized version of Oprah's "favorite things". An iTunes gift card... Old Navy Performance fleece quilted jacket... North Face Surge backpack... Seattle Sounders "third jersey"... Droid X...
In the real world, most Jewish children receive one large gift -- the magnitude and expenditure similar to a Christmas gift during the first or last night of Hanukkah -- or small gifts (socks, belt, Chone Figgins Seattle Mariners jersey) allocated over eight nights.
Regardless of your religious practice (or lack thereof), people, do remember your dogs during this gift-giving season. Blue Dog Bakery peanut butter and molasses flavored snacks... liver-flavored Chewgar gourmet dog treats... Penn State dog T-shirt...
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