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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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