“For Christmas, a gentile would get a bike as a reminder that their parents love them. For Hanukkah, we would get socks as a reminder that we were persecuted.”
About This Quote
This is one of the jokes Midge tells at a party. It shows the contrasting gift elements of both Holidays and how you tend to get small goodies for Hannukkah, but huge & amazing gifts for Christmas.
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