One Potato, Two Potato. 100 Potatoes to Cook Up Super-sized Chanukah Latke

by Sandy Sand

Only in Southern California. A beach town Jewish congregation creates a super-sized potato pancake to make McDonald’s proud.

Southern Californians like to pride themselves in being innovators and concocting new ideas that the country soon follows.

Members of Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach combined a green Chanukah with the traditional blue and white celebration making it into a light aqua event, and an attempt to break the world record for the largest potato latke.

Potato pancakes -- latkes -- are traditional fare served at Chanukah parties and are usually about four inches in diameter.

Isaiah congregants shredded enough of the spuds to make a three-foot wide super supper latke, which they cooked up in a solar paneled oven.

Record setting by itself, it must have taken a fantastic amount of sun power to heat up an oven big enough to cook that giant pancake. Not even new kitchen ovens are that big.

Rabbi Marc Rubenstein said in a sermon to the 100-family congregation that focused on the environment, "We are our brother's keeper, and we also have to take care of the Earth."

A neat idea and a fun thing to do, but I’m afraid there will be no prize as far as latke purists are concerned.

Real potato latkes are fried; their’s was baked.

If anything, they should win a prize for baking up the world’s biggest potato kugel.

Bush Invitation: That Ain’t No Christmas Tree, It’s a Bush Chanukah Bush

by Sandy Sand

The Bushies can’t do the simplest damn thing right, not even send out invitations to a White House Chanukah party.

Major Jewish leaders received invitations to a Chanukah reception in the White House that depicted a Christmas wreath on the presidential mansion, while out front was a horse-drawn cart pulling a Christmas tree up to the front door.

The invitation from George and Laura read in part: The pleasure of your company at a Chanukah reception.

This inept White House can’t do a damn thing right, and the embarrassing mistake was blame game explained away by spokesman Sally McDonough as a “staff mistake” that was “just something that fell through the cracks.”

The White House hastily sent out apologies for their stupid mistake, although I doubt anyone was highly offended by this gross blunder, but how do they atone for being the stupidest people on the planet?

When employment opportunities at the Bush White House are advertised they must list them under “only the dumbest need apply.”

On Thursday new invitations will be sent depicting an image of a menorah that was given to Harry Truman when he was president.

Fifty days to the Barack Obama inauguration and counting…

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128598