How To Spell Chanukah...And Other Holiday Dilemmas (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
. . and Other Holiday Dilemmas /**/ ADAM LANGER My Father’s Menorah MY FATHER HAD ALWAYS BEEN THE ARTIST IN OUR FAMILY, SO IT WAS NO SURPRISE WHO I SOUGHT OUT FOR HELP SHORTLY AFTER RABBI NATHAN ANNOUNCED THAT OUR HEBREW SCHOOL CLASS WOULD BE HOLDING A COMPETITION TO SEE WHICH ONE OF US COULD BUILD THE BEST MENORAH. Though my father made his living as a radiologist, art was his avocation. He didn’t tell me many stories of his past, but the most inspiring ones he offered were replete with tales of his own creativity. On Thirty-ninth and Drexel Avenue, on the South Side of Chicago, at S & L Beverages—his father’s ill-fated soda pop factory that went out of business not long after the beginning of World War II when sugar became scarce—my dad helped to manage the factory’s accounts and spent his spare time proposing new label designs. When S & L was sued by the Pepsi-Cola Company for producing a soft drink called Pep Cola, my dad proposed changing the product name to Loyal Clown Cola, a beverage that, in his vision, would have been advertised by a cartoon clown bearing a bouquet of balloons.
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