Le t’s Get
Ser iou s abou t
Ch anukah
L MATT SILVER | JE STAFF
et’s be real: Chanukah is far from the most theologically
signifi cant Jewish holiday on the calendar.

Reasonable minds can diff er over whether it counts,
strictly speaking, as a holiday at all. Does Chanukah carry the
religious or liturgical heft to merit serious observation (or such
cultural signifi cance)? Or is it simply a collection of biblically
inconsequential festival evenings strung together haphazardly
like dorm-room Christmas lights. Frivolity, fried foods and
Adam Sandler. Bloated electric bills and just plain bloating.

Was Chanukah always supposed to be like this? Was it ever
supposed to be more solemn and sobering in tone, or at least
more original — more Jewish and less Jewifi ed Christmas?
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