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A Very Peculiar Chanukah

Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Mon Dec 10, 2007 at 03:38:44 PM EST

I didn't get the memo, but apparently, the rules have changed:

A posh food store in New York's Greenwich Village has found itself red faced after offering hams for sale with the slogan "Delicious for Hanukkah," the current Jewish religious holiday.

The non-kosher labelling was spotted at the weekend by Manhattan novelist Nancy Kay Shapiro, 46, who decided instead of alerting management to take a picture of the unorthodox sign and post it on the Internet.

"I just thought it was funny," Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. "I wasn't offended in any way. I just thought, here's somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat."

More here. It is a short comment but brevity is the soul of wit. Then again, perhaps this story was not in jest after all.

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