Chanukah in Israel is not the gifting-and-marketing fest it is in the United States, which is exactly why you just may find celebrating it in its original setting all the more authentic and meaningful.
Blue glaciers float by during breakfast -- an unearthly, electric blue -- just the right color for domes of white buildings in Santorini, but mighty unsettling for chunks of ice.
Sivan 13, 5773
