Ice-sculpted from chainsaws and blow-torches, menorahs illuminate celebrations

Chabad Rabbi Tzemach Cunin lights Chainsaw Chicks'
ice-sculpted menorah for Chanukah 2011 in L.A.

Artists craft, ignite, then, demolish giant ice-menorah in L.A. Chabad Lubavitch gives Los Angeles, a city more accustomed to sand-sculpting than ice-sculpting, its first hand-crafted ice-menorah. The menorah draws attention to the history of the Maccabean Jews of Judea who fought the Syrian Hellenists to rededicate the Second Temple in Jerusalem, 165 BCE.

Rabbi Tzemach Cunin leads the ceremony which featured traditional oil-cooked foods, potato pancakes and jelly-donuts. The Chainsaw Chicks crew wowed the attendees with their custom designed, outdoor crafted, ice-menorah- which for safety reasons, they publicly demolished as the conclusion of the festivities. The event is captured here on video.



In related news, YNet News, Danny Adeno Abebe reports that an 'Ice City' is to be built in Jerusalem

Israel's capital to host its first ever ice festival in March-April 2012, including frozen sculptures of important sites. 

Jerusalem will host the first ice festival in its history in March-April 2012. It will be held at the city's old train station plaza and will include an exhibition of Jerusalem's most famous sites, all carved in ice, and many attractions for visitors. 

The sculpture exhibition will display Jerusalem's most unique sites, including the Tower of David, the Israel Museum and the Light Rail. Visitors will enter the complex through an icy "Jaffa Gate" and pass through a route including ice slides and other attractions linked to the different displays.

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Howard Stern comic icon, Melrose Larry Green, at the Menorah parade in liberal West Hollywood

At the completion of the Chabad L.A. Menorah parade, which aspires to spread light in the world, former L.A. mayoral candidate (and Howard Stern Show comic icon), Melrose Larry Green, taunts upper-middle class Hollywood liberals for insensitivity to Obama-era, lower-middle-class realities.

American carolers inspire traditional holiday values - like giving

The spirit of the holiday season reminds us to revisit David Zucker's under-rated, conservative-themed, neo-classic, "An American Carol" starring Kelsey Grammer Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, and Kevin Farley released just 3-years ago and available on YouTube.



DemoCast strives to preserve Anglo-Saxon tradition. In the holiday spirit, we present, from the streets of East Hollywood, the libertarian Dickens Carolers of the Church of Scientology.


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Chankuah's lessons for today (hint: it isn't a Jewish version of Christmas)

Most people assume that Chanukah is the Jewish holiday equivalent to Christmas, just as Passover is the predecessor of Easter. South Park had some fun with this here.

But Hanukah Harry (Rabbi Moshe Parry of L.A.) teaches us that the story of Chanukah (which translates as re-dedication) is more about conservative dedication to Torah (bible) principles in the face of pressure to assimilation to multiculturalism among the Syrian Greeks for personal aggrandisement.



(Glossary: Torah= Biblical law; Eretz Yisoel = The land of Israel; Beis ha Migdash = The Holy Temple; Avraham Avinu = Abraham, our father; Shabbos= The sabbath; Bris milah = ritual circumcision; Kashrut= kosher dietary laws; Kohen Gadol= Great Priest; Avodah= devotional prayer; HaShem= the name of G-d).

So you see, remembering Judah and the Maccabees fighting to preserve God-given rights, liberty, and culture is a long-honored tradition we can take inspiration from to protect Israel and Anglo-Saxon culture in our own time.