Happy Hanukkah!

[kenjari]

My neighborhood has been getting repeated visits from something I am calling the Hanukkah Mobile. It's a white pick-up truck that drives around with a large metal bar and lights in the shape of a simple menorah on top of the cab. It has loudspeakers in the bed that are playing festive-sounding songs in either Hebrew or Yiddish (it's hard to tell under the circumstances). I can only assume they are Hanukkah-themed songs. It makes me smile every time it goes by (twice today).
I'd heard it go by a couple times yesterday, but didn't know what it was, because we have the curtains drawn due to the cold. So when I heard it approaching this evening, I ran out onto the porch to see what it was. And was promptly delighted.

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[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

There was an Orthodox sect of Jews who would show up at Yale with a rented truck with banners on the sides, playing Jewish songs through a bullhorn, to exhort the Jews of Yale to adopt this sect's more conservative practices. The truck was known as "The Mitzvah Tank." Perhaps this is what you have in your neighborhood: your own mitzvah tank!

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

oooohhh-- that must be what my sister saw on her morning commute (queens->westchester) the other day!