I LOVE Christmas. The day after Thanksgiving we started decorating and we have our tree up, the mantle decorated, multiple nativities out, and the front yard blazing (well, maybe not blazing<\/em>) with lights.<\/p>\n

At work this week I put up a small fiber optic Christmas tree, that I inherited from a recently departed co-worker, in a little corner of my office on top of the mini-fridge where we store bottled water for visitors. It was suggested that I add a menorah which I thought was a great idea.<\/p>\n

Thus began my search. My first stop was the local Dollar Tree, where I had recently purchased Thanksgiving door decor and the current snowman on my office door. I walked the whole store twice, nothing remotely connected to Hanukkah was found. The next day I went to a different Dollar Tree because I was certain I had seen a small display there. Nothing. Then I went to Target where I knew<\/em> I had seen something. Indeed I had. One small endcap display with menorah candles, a window gel set, $20 menorahs, some wrapping paper and a set of toy dreidels. I looked through the ornaments wondering if there might be a menorah ornament. There wasn’t.<\/p>\n

In a town where there is a healthy Jewish population (three synagogues and a Jewish boarding school in a city of 280,000 people), I was really surprised to find so little. I mean, I’m sure I’ll find it eventually at\u00a0Michaels<\/a>, Walmart<\/a>, or maybe even at the Christmas Tree Shop<\/a>. \u00a0But it never occurred to me it wouldn’t be easy to find a small, inexpensive menorah for my display. I was wrong.<\/p>\n

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