"Come on baby light my fire"

Happy Chanukah to all you congregants at the Shul of Rock. During the festival of lights, in which we reflect on an amazing miracle of the past, I hope you can also remember to look for the everyday miracles that are occurring in your own life. It is sometimes easy to lose sight of how elements of our lives are so blessed.

Bask in that thought for a moment, will you?

All done? Come on, a few more seconds, ok? ……. Alright, that’s good.

I was talking with the co-president of the Shul, Mr. T, yesterday. We were enjoying one of our famous jaunts through downtown Toronto when we began discussing the dearth of good Chanukah movies. Every year, people throw oil-filled parties in which dreidels and DVDs spin, and it’s usually either The Hebrew Hammer, or Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights that gets some play.

Hammer is a fun film, but it gets old after the fourth viewing or so. And as for the Sandler movie, it’s more of a general holiday movie. It promotes all that holiday season mushiness, rather than a specifically Jewish tale. Mr. T and I are brewing up some pretty cool ideas, and if anyone ever has the dough to shoot a film, we’d love to be a part of it. Until then, we’ll continue making our own embarrassingly amateur Chanukah greeting videos.

Keep those dreidels spinning!