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  • hitchens on hanukkah

    Christopher Hitchens' article, ''Bah, Hanukkah,'' December 3rd in Slate woke this atheist Jew from his slumbers. Hitchens would have it that I have been asleep over my oil-drenched latkes, asleep over the Hanukkia, asleep, yes, but much worse. I have apparently been, for sixty years now, and Jews have been for a couple of millennia, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by bruce sarbit on December 13, 2007

  • Re: Oh Hitch...

    Ygalbot:Damn but I love your style and agree with you nearly 100% of the time in principal, if not in presentation. But sometimes even you miss the boat. To indict Channukah as a celebration of bloodlust & backwardness would be like indicting the Olympics as a celebration of pedophelia. But still technically, I suppose, you do have a point. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by gzuckier on December 4, 2007

  • a miracle for our times

    '' a puddle of olive oil that should have lasted only for one day managed to burn for eight days.'' Well, that has special meaning in these days of greenhouse gases, rising fuel costs, and fractive oil-producing states. like Alberta. A miracle of efficiency!
    Posted to Fighting Words by gzuckier on December 4, 2007

  • Hitchens Trivializes Deeply Held Beliefs

    Christopher Hitchens deconstruction of Hanukkah misses the point as usual. If we only celebrated holidays where the underlying historical reality was free of complexity, irony, and moral ambiguity, we would have no holidays at all. Hitchens apparently holds up for scorn any tradition, such as Hanukkah, that simplifies and reduces historical events ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by selowitch on December 4, 2007