<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default">Gifted by Doug Emhoff & Kamala Harris - to all:  Just found this today, on the last day of Chanukah, & it makes me KVELL [burst w/pride, Yiddish] to see how far we've come - to begin a longed-for New Chapter in America with this Biden-Harris transition: not only with a MENSCH in the White House again, & not only with the 1st WOMAN EVER, a Woman of immigrant parents who is Asian-Indian & a Woman of Color, but also with the 1st "Second GENTLEMAN EVER - AND he's JEWISH! Who could've EVER imagined a Woman of Color AND a Jewish Family in the White House [actually the Naval Observatory, as the article below states]?! The accompanying article below was written by Lior Zaltzman on 12/10/20.</div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Click on the link:  it's worth it! </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 60px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">**  <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1337152366085226496" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/i/status/1337152366085226496</a><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br><img src="https://www.kveller.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/hanukkahdougkamala.jpg" alt="hanukkahdougkamala" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; display: block; width: 834px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; min-width: 100%;"></div></div><div id="gmail-m_184537855779376063gmail-article-share-left" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;float:left"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kveller.com%2Fkamala-and-dougs-hanukkah-message-will-fill-your-heart-with-joy%2F" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px rgb(217,252,0);text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border-radius:100%;display:flex;height:44px;width:44px"></a></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kveller.com%2Fkamala-and-dougs-hanukkah-message-will-fill-your-heart-with-joy%2F&text=Kamala+and+Doug%E2%80%99s+Hanukkah+Message+Will+Fill+Your+Heart+With+Joy&tw_p=tweetbutton&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kveller.com%2Fkamala-and-dougs-hanukkah-message-will-fill-your-heart-with-joy%2F&via=kveller" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px rgb(217,252,0);text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border-radius:100%;display:flex;height:44px;width:44px"></a></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20article%20from%20Kveller.com&body=Kamala%20and%20Doug%E2%80%99s%20Hanukkah%20Message%20Will%20Fill%20Your%20Heart%20With%20Joy%20%2d%20https://www.kveller.com/kamala-and-dougs-h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s — who does a perfect <a href="https://www.kveller.com/kamala-harris-impression-of-her-jewish-mother-in-law-is-worthy-of-an-oscar/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;background:linear-gradient(to top,rgb(173,0,89) 0px,rgb(173,0,89) 100%) 0px 100%/100% 2px no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">impression</a> of her Jewish mother-in-law — shares why the Festival of Lights is her favorite. While Emhoff uses an Americanized pronunciation for Hanukkah, Kamala pronounces it with a hint of a perfect “<em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">ch</em>,” which I truly have to applaud. She then says she loves the holiday because it really is about “bringing light to places where there have been darkness,” especially at a time where there is so much darkness in the world. It’s about “Tikkun olam,” she summarizes, bringing up the <a href="https://www.kveller.com/tag/tikkun-olam/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;background:linear-gradient(to top,rgb(173,0,89) 0px,rgb(173,0,89) 100%) 0px 100%/100% 2px no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Jewish value</a> of repairing the world, “fighting for justice and fighting for the dignity of all people.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">“And it’s about joy, and spreading that joy around the world, and sharing it with your family and with your neighbors, and your community, and that’s important right now,” Emhoff adds poignantly.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">But perhaps the most moving moment is when they light the <a href="https://www.kveller.com/light-the-menorah-with-kveller-every-night-this-hanukkah/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;background:linear-gradient(to top,rgb(173,0,89) 0px,rgb(173,0,89) 100%) 0px 100%/100% 2px no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">menorah</a> (or hanukiah) together. Harris lights the shamash, and Emhoff uses it to light the candle for the first night of Hanukkah, which begins tonight, December 10.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It’s a small moment, but for a Jewish person in America —  an America where anti-Semitism and white supremacy <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/anti-semitism-is-on-the-rise-yet-the-press-barely-covers-it/2020/10/23/e4814e96-1549-11eb-a258-614acf2b906d_story.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;background:linear-gradient(to top,rgb(173,0,89) 0px,rgb(173,0,89) 100%) 0px 100%/100% 2px no-repeat;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">are on the rise</a> —  it is extremely powerful. To see this couple, who will soon be in the White House (or, more precisely, the Naval Observatory), carry on this Jewish tradition — not as a gesture of friendship or allyship with Jewish people, but because it is a historical part of their blended Jewish family and home — is deeply meaningful and groundbreaking. We may or may not have shed a tear (or eight).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes, we know this video will not fix all that ails the world. But it does bring us a little, much-needed light. <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Chag shameach, </em>Doug and Kamala!</p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">Take ACTION for HEALTH, Safety, Justice, & Peace - for <font color="#000000">ALL</font>, Sheri </font><div><br></div><div><font color="#ff0000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">I am One, but I am only One. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. . . Helen Keller</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>