In the “The Hanukkah Story”, columnist David Brooks describes: “Tonight Jewish kids will light the menorah, spin their dreidels and get their presents, but Hanukkah is the most adult of holidays. It commemorates an event in which the good guys did horrible things, the bad guys did good things and in which everybody is flummoxed by insoluble conflicts that remain with us today. It’s a holiday that accurately reflects how politics is, how history is, how life is.”
WATCHDOG: Brooks suggests that, at least in the Middle East, the more things change, the more they remain the same. For an enticing historic background to what has become over the past century a prominent Jewish holiday (in part to provide children with a festival to match Christmas) and how the mixed messages of the actual event mirror conflicts of today, we recommend the column. A wag of the tail!
