As those of you who flip ahead in your calendars will have noticed, Hanukkah comes early this year. And when I say early, I mean you'll still be eating leftover cold turkey sandwiches from Thanksgiving alongside your latkes. But that's fine; Hanukkah is never really a problem. Rosh Hashanah requires resolutions, Yom Kippur requires atonement, but Hanukkah just needs a few candles. Let's be honest -- Hanukkah is not a major holiday, and most of us have the whole Hanukkah thing down by this point in our lives.

Christmas, on the other hand, is a royal pain in the tuchus.

We stood in the middle of the field, all hugging, all crying, all not wanting to go home. It was the last day of camp, and while I knew that I had to get on the bus to the airport, I desperately did not want to leave Camp Yavneh. The Jewish summer camp had been my home for the past two months- the same way that it had been during the six previous summers.