Chanukah starts December 2, 2018. I have spelt it with a "C" ever since I was in school in Germany and had a teacher - who was a German national and taught us German once a week give me an F on my report (each student had to write a report on a different Winter holiday - in English) because she said I couldn't spell "Hanukah" with a "C" on my poster-board presentation.
One of my mom's friends gave me a book with "Chanukah" in the title and I not only got an A for my presentation, but having the school officials look into the teacher they found she was very anti-Semitic and had been teaching us the 1st stanza of the German National Anthem (used by Nazi Germany) and not the 3rd stanza which is currently used by Germany - which we were supposed to sing at a mandatory German-American Friendship Club.
The teacher was fired immediately and was later arrested by the MPs and then the German Police for calling in two bomb threats to our school - we had bomb threats on a regular basis when I lived in Germany and was in Elementary, Middle and part of High School (only once when I moved to New York.)
So for the 25th year in a row I will spell the Jewish Festival of Lights as - Chanukah.
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