Why did Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards recall a Chanukkah gift wrap from the shelves last week?
A. The blue ink used on the gift wrap was made from products derived from copepods, which are microscopic shrimp; therefore it was determined by the Chief Rabbi of Kansas City that the gift wrap was not kosher.
B. On the gift wrap, the words Happy Chanukkah in English and Hebrew were printed against a background picture of Passover matzah.
C. The product design was a pattern of blue and silver angular lines that included swastika shapes. Said a Hallmark spokesperson, “It was an oversight on our part to not notice the intersecting lines that could be seen as a swastika pattern.”
D. They did so under pressure from the faculty at the University of Missouri who are pushing Hallmark to join the BDS movement and discontinue selling any holiday cards, gift wrap or other Jewish-themed products until Israel withdraws from the West Bank.
E. When they printed the Hebrew greeting Chanukkah Sameach (Happy Chanukkah), they inadvertently omitted the Chet which is the first letter in Chanukkah, yielding Nacheh Sameach, which means Happy Cripple.
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