I have to admit to having flipped out just a little bit when I discovered that Thanksgiving falls on the first day of Chanukah, this year. For all of its funkiness, using the lunar calendar, and always having Jewish holidays fall on different days every year, nothing this weird has ever happened in my…
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Potato Pancakes -or- Latkes for Chanuka or Hannukah or …
Wait. How did it get to be December, already? Here I am, going about my business searching for new ways to dispose of leftover Thanksgiving turkey, and there it is on my calendar: Latke Week! Potato pancakes, that is. Chanukah came early this year, time to light colorful little candles and to commemorate the miracle…