Hanukkah With Uncle Reuben

Once a year, on the eve of a certain major holiday, a well-fed 

man of good cheer delivers toys to children everywhere. OK, 

maybe it’s not exactly a major holiday. And yes, if you want to 

be nit-picky about it, they’re not toys, they’re tchotchkes. And 

perhaps it’s not so much children everywhere, as much as it’s all 

of the Jewish children that he can reasonably visit in one night.

Who is this mensch, who, by the way, is a little verklempt that 

you are always discussing how he is-or-isn’t just like Santa Claus?  

Why he’s Uncle Reuben—and he’s a Hanukkah legend!