[img]2944|right|||no_popup[/img][Editor’s Note: On this seventh, or penultimate, day of Chanukah, reader Diane Rosenberg, best known for her decades-long association with the Culver City Democratic Club, sends along the most delightful Chanukah-sensitive rhyme she received from friends.]
While wishing Happy Chanukah, or Chag Sameah, to friends, this rhyme should be sung to the tune of “As Times Goes By.”
You must remember this,
A bris is still a bris,
A chai is just a chai.
Pastrami still belongs on rye,
As time goes by.
With holidays in view,
A Jew is still a Jew,
On that you can rely.
No matter if we eat tofu,
As hours slip by.
Old shtetl customs, never out of date.
All those potatoes mother has to grate.
Honey, tsimus, latkes, chopped liver on our plate
The best that gelt can buy.
Some would send us to perdition,
But we're strengthened by tradition,
That no one can deny.
We roam, but we recall our birthright, As time goes by.
Dreidels and chocolate, never out of date.
Ancient Jewish stories that we all relate.
Blue-and-white giftwrap, everything that's great?
And festive chazerai!
It's still the same old Torah,
It's still the same menorah,
We've latkes still to fry.
It's at yom tov when we feel most blessed, As time goes by.
Ms. Rosenberg may be contacted at
dianeherb713@msn.com
