It is now Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday of miracles, where lamp oil for one day lasted for eight as the Maccabees reclaimed the holy Temple in Jerusalem from the Syrian-Greek invaders more than 2,000 years ago.The emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Friday night by the Food and Drug Administration has the same miraculous feeling of a light at the end of the long and dark COVID-19 tunnel.
But with Christmas coming up in a few weeks, the holiday spirit that we all need is still lacking. We know it isn’t safe to huddle together in stores shopping for presents, or worse, in gatherings to share holiday cheer.