Happy Hanukkah! (Afghanistan Edition)
Gee, I hope I spelled that right. Yesterday, I attended my first Hanukkah service, which was led by a very nice man, Jeff. There were two Mormons, a single Jew conducting the service, an agnostic (uh, that would be me), a Catholic, and an Air Force guy. We’re tight.
We met in the “library” where I work in Afghanistan, and Jeff told us the story of the last Jew in the country. No kidding. There were two, and they didn’t get along, so one left. Apparently a well-received play was written about it.
Then he told us the old story about “three jews, two synagogues”, and relayed the description his children provided about Jewish Holidays. They wearily explain that on Jewish Holidays, “we gather to recall one of … Continue reading