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add to the inconvenience. Pivenshteyn
and other parents mentioned that they
would have to consider shopping weeks
in advance.

Pivenshteyn’s daughters are old enough
to know that there are eight nights of
Chanukah, and to request more than eight
gifts. That puts mom in competition with
other early holiday shoppers in “stores that
are practically empty,” she said.

The Northeast Philly resident wants
her kids to get everything they want. But
she may have to print IOUs or pictures of
gifts to come during Chanukah itself.

“They are not going to understand that
it’s just not there,” Pivenshteyn said.

Rebecca Bar of Wynnewood has kids
ages 7 and 5 with birthdays in August
and October. So, she has already looked
through the catalogs and made her lists
of possible gifts.

But for her child’s October birthday,
Bar ran into a two-week shipping delay.

She thinks the same thing may happen
with Chanukah.

In preparation, Bar has two backup
plans: shopping locally and focusing on
experiences, like a family trip.

“There’s less of an issue with supply
chains locally,” she said.

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Bar is almost hoping to go that route.

“My kids have plenty of toys,” the mom said. “So I’m not
worried that they’ll miss out on anything.”
Shopping locally and shopping online for experiences may
also be more convenient for a working mother of two.

“It’s hard to fi t it all in,” Bar concluded.

In the end, too, Chanukah is not about giving gift s or unwind-
ing from work at the end of the year, parents explained. It’s about
spending time with the kids and appreciating the miracle of the
holiday. Dan Rovner of Philadelphia has a year-old daughter, his only
child. Th is will be her second Festival of Lights.

He said sure, he had to think about gift s earlier, but also that
his daughter wouldn’t understand the gift s anyway.

“It’s only my second Chanukah as a dad with my daughter,”
he said. “So whenever it falls, it’s just nice to celebrate with her.”
Plus, as Schnur, a member of four synagogues and the admin-
istrator of the Jews in Center City Facebook group, pointed out,
this whole conversation is just a technicality. Chanukah starts
on the same day every year: the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew
calendar. “Same thing, every year,” Schnur said.

Th e question of when Chanukah falls is only a question on
the Gregorian calendar, the one used by most of the world. Th e
Hebrew/Jewish month of Kislev coincides with the Gregorian
months of November and December.

Th at’s why Chanukah, on our American calendar, comes at a
diff erent time each year. ❆
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