Hanukkah 2022: on fire?

Happy Hanukkah image from Dreamstime

RantWoman is not Jewish. No one in RantWoman's family is Jewish. So RantWoman doing anything framed around Hanukkah is a little presumptuous. And this is RantWoman so presumptuous is what we've got. RantWoman recently spent one Hanukkah season rage blogging on the theme of "nothing appropriate" in honor of one of the RantParents' more spectacular seasonal parenting lapses and the general state of RantWoman's frets about RantBrother.. 

This year in honor of the Feast of Lights RantWoman will be examining topics on a spectrum between small prose fires and make someone's head explode. RantWoman is not unconcerned about the Make people's head explode point but does not necessarily know how to buffer. RantWoman may or may not, for the sight dependent, add images from her recent  Holiday Iconography  post.

RantWoman is a little late for the first night and will simply adapt a Hanukkah greeting she offered to one of her blindness email lists with an asterisk indicating that part of the "on Fire" discussion has to do with bigger themes of Diversity Equity Inclusion and a suggestion RantWoman concurs with to (HORRORS) do away with invocations at a state convention, and even more outrageously with the Pledge of Allegiance, since some of us refuse to mumble about one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

But let us stick to Hanukkah for now.

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Thank you for the wishes and happy hanukkah to you. (the internet says this is a perfectly acceptable seasonal wish.)

I went looking for reminders about the meaning of Hanukkah and foun this article I appreciated because it covers lots of different parts of the history.

How to celebrate Hanukkah

Pay attention to all the ways to spell hanukkah which the screen reader definitely helps find.

Eating fried foods is a traditional part of Hanukkah. No one in my family is Jewish but one food from the Sephardic tradition that is made a lot in Mexico is bunuelos. My dad liked bunuelos and sometimes programmed sephardic music as part of his college choral programs. I found a recipe. It is a typical recipe website mess of ads and videos but you can use headings to find the recipe and instructions and skip all the rest.

Mexico In mY kitchen bunuelo recipe

Sometimes people who openly display menorahs get attacked or harassed so I also wish everyone a safe and festive celebration.

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