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Tonight, at sunset, begins Chanukah, the Jewish "Festival of lights" that lasts 8 days, as we illuminate one additional candle each evening.
I wish to Peter and anyone else celebrating a happy and healthy year surrounded by loved ones and family.

I have more than normal to be thankful for this year. I am alive. I am improving, slowly. I have a terrific wife and a gifted & brilliant son, and a great support group....right here !!

I know that when I strike the match, to illuminate the 1st candle, tonight that I will not have a dry eye, but it will be a happy-cry, that I am still here to do it.

Thank you all for your many many well wishes, both "public" and in your PMs AND e-mails to me. You are all very kind, good people.

I feel sad that I could not get out to buy Matt & Karen any gifts for Chanukah. (Think Christmas, with no gifts, for full effect, here).

Shalom
To Life !

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Sandy

We will light a candle for you and your's tonight.

Happy Chanukah!

Appreciated! Thanks.

I also look forward to Christmas. I like Christmas alot. I like the love of fellow mankind and the peacefull aura. (and) Yes, I have been to Midnight Mass, a beautiful and moving service, and I love the Christmas movies on TV, like Silent Night. My Dad's Birthday was Christmas, so we celebrated that. I also was invited once to the Catholic Midnight Mass in NYC. Now....THAT is something !!

Tonight, I ate solid food. First time since Nov. 17th. I had a tossed green salad and some French bread, heated with butter and a Boylan's Cola. We are awaiting Matt home from work. My wife looks tired from taking care of me, and I look horrible. I've lost 37 pounds, and now have "turkey neck" syndrome. Gobble Gobble

thank you sandy! i hope you your wife and son have a very good first night!

i too look foward to christmas... chinese food!!!

OH GOD, THAT'S FUNNY!! YOU ARE A PISSER!
Oh, 'ya, every Jew eats Chinese Food on X-Mas !
How true - I forgot how funny that is..

Glad to hear you are doing well... Happy Chanukah!

Oh, since I was raised Catholic, and am now Lutheran of the Missouri Synod, I have to know; what's with the Chinese food on Christmas?

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

Well, it's sorta kinda traditional. To go out to eat, recall we are talking about Christmas, most are "dressed" up and there is usually a Special Christmas Menu, pretty pricey and all and alot of food. So, since the woman of the house probably doesn't feel like cooking on Chanukah, the only other alternative is the fact that all the Chinese restaurants are open & they deliver !! So, it's sorta a tradition that since we are not having a big Christmas dinner, most Jewish families order "in" Chinese on Christmas. Now, of course, Chinese food is definately NOT Kosher (loads of pork) so, if you are Kosher, it's..... ah...... probably Pizza Delivery!!
There 'ya go!

haha yes so true sandy... here in detroit we have jerusalem pizza its super kosher down to the imported mozzarella.

i go out to eat on christmas at a chinese place because they are all thats open and i dont cook that much... its funny though if you look around everyone eating in the restraunt is jewish.

Oh No, Pete, not here in Jersey. ALL restaurants are OPEN all day, Christmas. It's a BIG $$$ day ! But, e'one comes in all dolled up from having been to Church around noon-time. Very fancy.

(and) we have the same jerusalem pizza with its super kosher down to the imported mozzarella. It's a chain. But, we don't get it. There is better. We just get a 1/2 Onion and 1/2 plain pizza. They have a biggie at the "Y" here on Christmas, too. Catered by Jerusalem Pizza to go and also by Canton Palace! It's a vertual pizza won-ton feast. But, I only went once. Very noisy & loud and a billion + kids under age 10.

Sandy wrote:Well, it's sorta kinda traditional. To go out to eat, recall we are talking about Christmas, most are "dressed" up and there is usually a Special Christmas Menu, pretty pricey and all and alot of food. So, since the woman of the house probably doesn't feel like cooking on Chanukah, the only other alternative is the fact that all the Chinese restaurants are open & they deliver !! So, it's sorta a tradition that since we are not having a big Christmas dinner, most Jewish families order "in" Chinese on Christmas. Now, of course, Chinese food is definately NOT Kosher (loads of pork) so, if you are Kosher, it's..... ah...... probably Pizza Delivery!!
There 'ya go!

Ah, I get it! Thanks!

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

I have a very funny diet. I could give a Rabbi "fits" ~
I do not "keep Kosher" via the Jewish dietary laws.
I mix dairy WITH meat (horrors)! However, I do not
eat any form of pork. I have never tasted ham in my life.
Ditto, Shell Fish. (and) ONLY Kosher meat, Chicken, or fish.

But, this is because when I graduated High School, I really did NOT want to go to college. So...my Dad got me a job in a Newark NJ meat processing plant. I will not name the company. However, "Clean" was not observed there. Food handers came in sick (flu) and handled food.
Food fell to the floor, and was put back onto the conveyor. Managers had to "look away" or were let go for some fake reason. It was horrible.
I was fired. Then I went to a Kosher meat purveyor and it was night & day different. You were paid to stay home - if sick. It was so strict in food handling and you had 3 people watching over you. 1 error & you were fired.
I immediately turned to Kosher only... for meat & fish & Chicken.

Lately in the news, you may have seen/heard of all the tainted meats in NJ and Topps closing it's doors and others with sanitary problems.
Banquet Foods Frozen Dinners with tainted meat.... others, too.
Ha, tip of iceberg.
So, 'ya, I finally quit & went to college: American University for 2 years & then transferred to Temple University for 2 years, all so I could sell cars for the next 30 years.
Dad was happy.

party at the Y? dont you guys have a JCC. our J has a place called milk in honey in it.... thats right a restraunt that sells NO MEAT!

i too dont keep kosher i eat milk with meat and i like bacon and pork ribs i hate ham and pork chops or any other pork. im not a fish eater so i dont find it hard to stay far away from shell fish even though my girlfriend works for red lobster. i hear ya on the kosher meat thing its way cleaner then the other stuff.

Yes, it's a JCC. Old habits die hard. I still call it the "Y" (It was a YMHA). The JCC here in Northern N.J. is THE biggest and newest on the East Coast. Many millions of dollars. It's just huge. 4 pools, 10 indoor tennis courts, kids camps, music, art, telecommunications rooms, a theatre and a band stand and parking for 800 cars.

MetroWest JCC - probably on the web.

HERE, PETER:-- www.jccmetrowest.org.

It's so huge, it spawns 2 towns~ West Orange & Whippany !

wow and i thought ours was big! the west bloomfield JCC is like the 3rd largets JCC.
http://www.jccdet.org/

it even has 2 full size indoor roller hockey rinks and 6 full size basketball courts. its also got a theater and an art gallary 2 restraunts some pools and a whole bunch more stuff

See now that surprises me that such a big & active one in Michigan!!
In New Jersey it does not surprise me (well, as much). I guess we live & learn.