menorahMaybe they were just there for the latkes and cider, or the Columbia Marching Band playing Chanukah songs, but the promise of a Prezbo appearance may have drawn the substantial crowd at tonight’s concluding menorah lighting. Rabbi Yonah Blum greeted Lee C. with praise and a Chanukah gift, and after Prezbo said a few words about religious tolerance and mounted the ladder with his lantern-lighting blowtorch, the ceremony concluded.

The strains of Hava Nagila followed this Gentile bwogger back to her labors, Hershey’s kiss gelt in hand.

– LBD