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You know, I'm a big friend of the Chosen People. If I could have chosen, I'd probably have been born Jewish.
Here's the thing: Hanukkah is a very minor holiday of the Jewish calendar. It's gotten blown out of proportion because suddenly it's part of "The Holidays", and it has to compete with the 800lb Gorilla of the Christian calendar. If you actually ask a practicing Jew who doesn't have children, they'll mostly tell you that Hanukkah isn't that big a deal. They light a menorah, but It's not like Passover or Yom Kippur. It's not even as big a holiday as Sukkot, which most goyim haven't even heard of (I'm proud to say, I'm one shegitz who has shaken an etrog).
So for a rabbi to be insisting on equal representation of the Jewish holiday is just absurd victimization-mongering. Sea-Tac is right on one count: giving in to him WOULD open the doors of a slippery slope.
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