You get 8 days of presents!
We have gambling!
Blue and white is prettier than green and red.
With latkes we get sour cream AND applesauce.
You won’t have nightmares about a scary Ghost of Hanukkahs to Come.
All the fried food you can eat!
We all get a great night’s sleep on Christmas Eve.
Did we mention the eight days of presents?
You can be as naughty as you want.
Star of Bethlehem—feh! We had oil that lasted 8 days!
Jewish parents love their kids and buy them presents. Gentiles don’t, so Santa does it instead.
There are two—TWO—blessings we get to say over the candles every night. And THREE on the first night!
They don’t get to have a Bar Mitzvah.
Chinese food and a movie!
We get a holiday once a week, all year. And all that cheesecake on Shavout.
My great-grandfather didn’t survive all those pogroms so we could have a Christmas Tree.
EIGHT DAYS OF PRESENTS.
life in the little city 