Friday, December 15, 2006

Journal, journal, journal

For the past year I've been puzzled that Firecracker would call spinning tops "journals." That led to much miscommunication and frustration. Tonight I realized that she was trying to say "dreidel."

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  1. Kind of like the time years ago when my raised-in-a-midwestern-village-with-no-Jews-anywhere-nearby husband told me he knew our new neighbors were Jewish because the husband wore a yarma-luke.

    Right.

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  2. Blessings to you and your family. Have missed you

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  3. Happy New year to you, Jeff, Firecracker, Drama Queen, the whole bunch!

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  4. Oh, a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side, played especially during Hanukkah!

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