Yesterday was the first night of Chanukah. Jews are celebrating the victory of the Maccabees over the forces of Antiochus IV and his Jewish collaborators. We'll summarize, 'Get your graven images out of our temple while we let you.' Here's Ben Shapiro's reaction to Kamala Harris' disastrous Chanukah greeting last year. Hilarious.
Heh, when Alexander marched into Judea, the Jerusalem elders opened the gates to him. But when Alexander demanded the Jews built an alter to him in the temple they said no. 'Beware these people who fear their god more than you,' an advisor told Alexander. The great conqueror wisely spared the city. To this day Alexander is considered an appropriate Jewish name.
This blog once more points out that Chanukah is a minor holiday grown important because it's near Christmas and American Jews use it as an excuse to give their kids presents.
The Israelis don't make a very big deal about Chanukah at all. This morning the Times of Israel's landing page is all about renewed nuclear negotiations with Iran. Oh my, the fools who think they can negotiate this problem away. We'll never write that third Israel Strikes book, will we?
What Will's Watching, Eagles at Giants: two suck-ass football teams stumbling around. The Giants won 13-10. We were stunned. Injury prone Sequon Barkley is finished, no? Eagles QB Jalen Hurts tossed three interceptions. 'Suck it, biatch!' we messaged our friend Paul the Eagles fan after the game.
We wandered Barnes and Noble with the girls looking for a reading project. We just want that idea, that spark that led us to read all we could about the Vietnam War, The Civil War, Russia, but none was coming. We did see a couple of interesting books about post Civil War America, but we felt no ju-ju.
Segway...We'll be reading The Great Salvation of 1976 all week.
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