Dress Of The Day with Angela

  What can you take or send as a gift during hanukah? 1 A hanukiah (9 branch candelabra). Usually sold with the 44 candles you need. 44? Yes. Night one you light two candles, the helper candle and the first night candles. Night two, you light three candles, and so on up to the eighth night when you light - this is how it goes Night one 2  Night two + 3 = 5 + 4=0 +5 = 14 + 6 = 20 +7 = 27 + 8 = 33 + 9  = 44. If the family have that, you could bring.  2 Chocolate wrapped in gold foil. 3 Latkes (grated potato pancakes, fried in oil. 4 Donuts with jam centres. (Or kosher wine which you can buy in Jewish supermarkets, general supermarkets in the kosher section or wine section, or wine merchants.) 5 Dreidels Dreidls are spinning tops. The story goes that when it was forbidden by the Syrian King Antioch 4, Jews who gathered together pretended to be spinning tops as a gambling entertainment. True, or myth? As Edmund Rothschild said to me at lunch in Exbury, UK, 'Why let the t...

  Angela Lansbury is wearing a Hanukah night dress, 165. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Colours   Looking carefully at the night dress pattern, I notice that it has more than one shade of blue. The  pale blue is the background, with darker blue. Other colours are red, yellow, and lavender.  The Cut Hardly visible is the pocket on the  left breast (on the right of the picture). The night dress is ankle length. The sleeves are short.  The Pattern The first thing you notice is the hanukiah or nine branch candlestick. Eight branches for the eight days of Hanukah; the ninth candle in the middle is for lighting the others.   The dreidls, or four-sided spinning tops, have four Hebrew letters. The circles, which I had not noticed until today, .are in two shades of yellow. The circles represent the Hanukah coins. Nowadays children and adults are given gold covered chocolate coins. I bought this night dress in the USA, in Rockville, Maryland, on the outskirts of W...