Chanukah Confection Lights Up Gush Etzion

In a nod to the English-speaking population of Gush Etzion, one shop understood it was possible to bring Chanukah to the masses months before the actual start of the eight-day holiday, which begins this Wednesday evening at sundown. The English Cake eatery at the Gush Etzion junction in Judea had the marketing savvy to supply its busy counter with a mouth-watering array of Israel's answer to Eastern Europe's traditional Chanukah meichel (Yiddish for delicacy), the latke. For the uninitiated, the latke is a potato pancake fried in oil.