As American Jews, we sometimes forget our difference, but anti-Semites, and today anti-Zionists, inevitably remind us. Although we may be excluded from intersectional gatherings – for not being different in just the right way – Jews, from the beginning of Western culture, and certainly at the time of the Greeks of the Hanukkah story, have been the rejected ‘Other.’
In my youth, Hanukkah observance – latkes, gelt and bright orange electric candles –seemed more like a way of showing our similarity to Christians neighbors than our difference.
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