Chanukah in Santa Monica

Yes, thanks to our friends from Chabad, there is a HUGE chanukiah overlooking the Santa Monica pier.

I love being Jewish. And I’ve certainly never hidden my identity. We’ve got an electric menorah in a front window of our home in order to comply with the commandment to “publish the miracle.” Nevertheless, the very public display of very large menorahs rub me the wrong way.

For some reason, it makes me think of someone with a Napoleon complex. As if there was something we are trying to prove…