We envision every Christmas tree in America decorated in patriotic ornaments as well as menorahs and dreidels created in red, white and blue. |
We barely see the world at such a level, for we are surburbing in our splanches, looking for ledges to set down our plastic menorahs for all the gentiles to see. |
They have some syncretic mixture of rituals: they polish menorahs or decorate Christmas trees, meditate upon the great beyond, say a silent prayer, light candles to the darkness. |
All of us — my mother, my brothers, and I — had our own brass menorahs for Hanukkah. |
Arabic inscriptions were wrapped around menorahs, and Greek gods appeared on coins with zodiac signs and biblical characters. |
For Hanukah, Jonathan Adler offers a blue, Lucite cube menorah, as well as an array of mod, ceramic-animal menorahs. |