Quote Originally Posted by Lowell View Post
and lest we forget...

"A summary of every Jewish holiday: They’d tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!"-Alan King

Simon Rakoff's version: "They tried to kill all of the Jews, they only managed to kill some of the Jews, so we celebrate."


Quote Originally Posted by canuck View Post
I spent a couple weeks in Budapest in October. My wife and I visited the Jewish ghetto and the great synagogue. There is a renewal of sorts and there seems to be a homecoming or at least some in migration from Israel and other parts of the Diaspora.
I hope it works out for them. There is a great deal of xenophobia in Hungary and antisemitism is particularly bad. I have heard it many times myself from my father-in-law and brother-in-law who live there.

Confession: When I saw the title of this thread, I had no idea it was a Hanukkah greeting. It looked to me more like some Gaelic language than Hebrew.