Let me just say
this: Hanuka is not a major Jewish holiday, it's just the closest festival to
Christmas. (Next year, it starts on Thanksgiving.) It's not even in the top
ten. The proper analogue would
be Passover, and we have a 3000y-old Santa for that: Elijah the Prophet. He visits
every Jewish house in the world at the Passover Seder meal, but not to drink
milk--to drink wine! And he doesn't bring the kids presents; the kids blackmail
their parents for the afikoman, or the Seder cannot proceed. That's a useful
skill! Santa may have a sleigh w/ reindeer, but Elijah has a chariot of fire
with flaming horses.
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