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12 Supplement of The Canadian Statesman, November 21, 1979 Sendig holday anukkah Customs are gifts by mail If \yo're sending packages e ong M r F stv to distant dear ones, there are B e m n o e Fe tv everchangýing post office rufles The Jewýishi holiday of include neighborhood festi- andreuaontatoul Hanukkah, the Celebration vities, even inicluding elec- want to 'be m1indfu-l of. Wrap- of Lights, whichi fails at trical homfe decorations. pin pacel ca betrikyabout the same timne as the This would have been piceepahes mes n bmmdicwhen Christian holiday season, in unheard of, just a few years malig ifs.the past was usually ago. ignored or unknown out- bAnddstrnfbrord tboxside the Jewish commuuity Rabbis and Jewish, edu bade wthrenfrcd ap imnil fairiy renertiy cators are observing these a nmust. Fi the box comipl- uye y if heInl an Orthodox home changes -with twinkled eyes., tey . gftdes' flthe HauuLkkah celebration When the so-called it entirely, stuff crushed uews- paprs r ohe liht illr as a simple, five-minute, "Hanukkah bush" was aroud t. henreiforedcandle-lightîng ceremony. introduced a few years ago, The childreu received decorated with the Star of fiberglass tape or heavy pennies after the ceremnouy. David and other symibols, gummied tape should go round tetaiinissfoud the package at least twice in The Jewish holiday lasts Te eivdtepatc each direction, securing end for eight days. At suri wudb ouuigt h flaps. down, on the first day ofJeihcidinersobs Maskiug tape or transparent Hanuikkah, and for each of ow- dniy stick tapes are not acceptable, the eight days, children widnty and staples are surely a -110, receive a gift. Ou the first- The "creepiug commer- no)!" Twine or string is day a candie is lit, and au cialism" of Hauukkah is frownied ou too, since it can additioual caudle is lit ou causing mixed feelings comre loose and fail off the box suceigugt.aogt -taditioualists of entirely! Wheu youir package Gauly nteUie Jewry. As one patriarch is comnpletely secure, write the States, the strict, orthodox puts it, "At this stage, I address, in smecar-proof iuk. inepeaino h o-welcome il as a mneans of Ona lael tha is viedonwll. iterpreationof theholi-joyous eis idnfca o& ae hti le nwl day has giveu way to more to yJws duiia Parcel Airîift bias a special opnieuormeu of youflgsters. rate for gifts going to military clbain u sm persounel abroad, and interna-hoe,îtepaisar "If it ever reaches the tional air-parcel-post rates hedpoint, however, that gifts bave remiained the saine. o aho teegtaud food aud games blot There are somle optious on nights, with gifts ou each out the main ideal of the kiud of shippiiig you catiigt Hanukkah, at that time I use. Books are thoughitfL Iu some, communities, shaîl resist further changes gifts aud-you cani take advan- the celebration of Hanuk- iu our time-honored cultu- tage of the special Post Office kah has been developed to rai patterns." book-rate to send them. Fourth class mail will arrive as .... ...... .. pronmptly as parcel post. If ~~ you're a last minute mailer, Gf d' air-miailt and Express miail will frTni e oia eo speed youir packages on their That set of tennis halls Having a hoiday party? Express Mail covers onîy you're thoughtful enough look festive -with strips of larger cities where good air- to have bails persoualized green and ired vinyl tape in service is regularly availablc.e.: with steuciled initiaIs. decorative desigris. J(Qa ti&weout aet R F-uEstuano,~ , din nerw tosoth tea 01 e 9 igSt.W.deliuslnhe n