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Born-Again President - White House Hannukah
(Los Angeles Times)Dennis Prager - I celebrated Hanukkah at a White House party attended by President and Mrs. Bush. Only in America does a president light a menorah while a Jewish choral group sings Hebrew songs and the Marine band plays American songs. Only in America do Jews feel so honored as Jews and yet so completely part of the larger culture, fully Jewish and fully part of the greater nationality. As a yeshiva graduate, I never thought I would live to see identifying Jews, let alone Orthodox rabbis, so happy to be in a room with a menorah and a Christmas tree. Yet that signified a sea change taking place in American Jewish life - the realization that Christianity is no longer the enemy or the great Other but, for the first time in 2,000 years, a great ally.