It's sure to produce a smile because it's a Jewish holiday that arrives with a sense of history, as well as a sense of humor.
Adam Sandler got a hit novelty song out of the festival of lights. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert like to ride it for comedic mileage.What's not to like about a holiday, coming hard on the heels of Thanksgiving, that encourages the consumption of potato latkes and jelly doughnuts, the playing of dreidel games and the giving of gifts to children?Of course, there's a serious, non-commercial side to Hanukkah and that's what Rabbi Yaakov Kelman, executive director of the Israel Center in Albany, prefers to focus on."It's really a victory of light over darkness," Kellman said.He's seen both the light and dark sides of human nature as a state prison chaplain. He'll be on duty one night of Hanukkah at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Comstock, Washington County. The holiday changes days each year based on the Hebrew calendar and it runs from Dec. 1 through 9 this year.
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