Why The Cultural Elite Truly Despises Hanukkah

Why The Cultural Elite Truly Despises Hanukkah
Heather Howard/News Herald via AP

Our cultural elites' least ­favorite Jewish holiday has arrived: Hanukkah, of course.

Why did Hanukkah irk everyone from the late Christopher Hitchens, who memorably ­derided it as a "celebration of tribal Jewish backwardness," to author Sarah Prager, who took to the pages of The New York Times recently to explain that she won't be teaching her kids about it?

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