Tomorrow night, at sundown, begins the Jewish Festival of Lights - Hanukkah. To all our LCT friends who celebrate, Alan and I wish you a joyous holiday and New Year filled with abundant blessings!

Denise, A very Happy New Year to Alan and you too.

We are celebrating our annual Holiday Tamales (Ida's homemade (she made 9 dozen) and Champagne (my duty--tough one but someone has got to do it)
Wednesday nite paired w/our outdoor Christmas Tree Lighting. We are very, very fortunate to have our dear friend Murray Lynn and his wife Sonia among the dozen+ that are coming over. Murray is an Auschwitz survivor--survived 15 months there (his family perished) as a 15 year old.

A very Happy Hannukah, Denise! We have celebrated "California Christmas" this weekend with our West Coast families and now 10 of us are heading to NYC for our traditional cold Christmas. Happy Holidays to all.
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Helen

Happy Hanukkah to you and Alan, Denise.

Thanks so much, Wes, Helen and Beth. We are wishing you all a wonderful holiday and New Year!

Helen, being a NYer, I can honestly say there is nothing better than Christmas in NYC! Have a great time!

Joyous Hanukkah!
Eva Grant

At last! At last! Hanukkah is here!
The whole house is bursting with holiday cheer.

Pancakes are sizzling as hard as they can,
Browning delectably crisp in the pan.

The dreidels can scarcely wait to be spun;
Presents are hidden for Hanukkah fun;

And there, on the table, polished and bright,
The shining menorah gleams through the night,

Like the oil lamp in ancient history,
That burned on and on miraculously!

And each flaming candle proclaims the great story
Of the Maccabean heroes, their deeds and their glory.

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While living in Memphis, daughter Donna attended school at the Memphis Jewish Community Center where we were members so we were fortunate enough to learn about Judaism. Nothing better than diversity.

Happy Hanukkah!

Cheers! Ray & Penny

Happy Hanukkah to all.

We will celebrate on Friday night with the kids and lots of potato pancakes.

wonderful poem and great experiences for your daughter. diversity is a very, very good thing to embrace! thanks for sharing, ray!

wishing you and yours a lovely holiday and new year, doris! enjoy the latkes!

From our home where we do both:

Merry Hanukkah & Happy Christmas!

Happy Hanukkah to you and Alan, Denise.

Doug & Andi

HAPPY to all of you!!! Best wishes for 2012 to great friends XXOO

Hi Denise and Alan,

Wishing you a very Happy Hanukkah to you and all LCTers which celebrate it!

thanks so much for the really sweet holiday wishes, maria, betty, joanna, suzie, and andi/doug. happy new year, too!

here's to happy co-mingling of holidays, betty and larry, andi and doug! you get to celebrate the best of both! i love when the holidays come out at the same time.

love the candles, suzie!

Yum! Potato pancakes with applesauce. Happy Holidays to everyone. We took our grandkids to Disneyland last weekend. It is so beautiful with all the decorations. Wonderful Christmas parade! One day there and the next at Knott's Berry Farm. John & I rode rides we haven't been on in years. Our grandchildren were thrilled.

Such a fun season to be with family and friends, wishing all our wonderful LCT friends a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.

2012 will be great because we'll get to see many of you :app:

Frank and I wish a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukka to all our LCT friends as well. I agree that its so nice when both Holiday's are around the same time.
In Calif many years ago, our kids had some Jewish friends and they were always invited for one night during Hanukka, and then we would have them over to decorate our tree. It was lots of fun and I always felt a good way for them to learn different tradations of different religions and cultures. And those potato pancakes were something to look forward to every year.
Looking forward to seeing some of you next year.

It is wonderful to share traditions - I experienced that growing up - loved Hanukkah with my friends and loved having them Xmas Eve at my house - and boy do I remember great cooking by my Jewish second mothers!