{"id":23832,"date":"2020-12-16T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/classic-and-contemporary-poems-that-celebrate-hanukkah-and-the-jewish-faith#id28652"},"modified":"2020-12-16T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:15:00","slug":"family-and-community-through-the-long-lens-of-jewish-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/family-and-community-through-the-long-lens-of-jewish-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFamily and community through the long lens of Jewish history.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Poetry Magazine round-up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69625\/hanukkah-poems\">classic and contemporary poems<\/a> that celebrate Hanukkah and the Jewish faith.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/51692\/honorary-jew\">&#8220;Honorary Jew,&#8221;<\/a> by John Repp:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first year, I grated potatoes, chopped onions <br \/>\n&amp; watched. The second year, I fed all but the eggs <\/p>\n<p>into the machine &amp; said <em>I&#39;ll do the latkes<\/em> &amp; did, <br \/>\nmy pile of crisp delights borne to the feast by the wife <\/p>\n<p>who baffled me, our books closed, banter hushed, <br \/>\nmoney useless in the apartment&mdash;house, my in-laws called it, <\/p>\n<p>new-wave thump at one end, ganja reek at the other&mdash; <br \/>\nin which she&#39;d knelt to tell the no one who listened <\/p>\n<p><em>no more no      no more no<\/em>    a three-year-old mouthing <br \/>\nthe essential prayer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/classic-and-contemporary-poems-that-celebrate-hanukkah-and-the-jewish-faith\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poetry Magazine round-up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69625\/hanukkah-poems\">classic and contemporary poems<\/a> that celebrate Hanukkah and the Jewish faith.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/51692\/honorary-jew\">&#8220;Honorary Jew,&#8221;<\/a> by John Repp:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first year, I grated potatoes, chopped onions <br \/>\n&amp; watched. The second year, I fed all but the eggs <\/p>\n<p>into the machine &amp; said <em>I&#8217;ll do the latkes<\/em> &amp; did, <br \/>\nmy pile of crisp delights borne to the feast by the wife <\/p>\n<p>who baffled me, our books closed, banter hushed, <br \/>\nmoney useless in the apartment\u2014house, my in-laws called it, <\/p>\n<p>new-wave thump at one end, ganja reek at the other\u2014 <br \/>\nin which she&#8217;d knelt to tell the no one who listened <\/p>\n<p><em>no more no      no more no<\/em>    a three-year-old mouthing <br \/>\nthe essential prayer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/classic-and-contemporary-poems-that-celebrate-hanukkah-and-the-jewish-faith\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}