It's Hanukkah. Candles. Lights. Gifts. Joy. And yet, I have these words going through my head: Jews have been hated because we were communists and because we were capitalists Hated for being cosmopolitan and for being too insular Hated for being elitists and for being refugees Hated because we blended in too easily and hated for being different Hated for being stateless and homeless and now hated for having a powerful state These are roughly the words from Rabbi Baruch Frydma