I too was looking forward to the moment when Jet Li, playing Judah Maccabee, took an innocent-looking dreidel, spun it at 100 miles and hour and sliced off the heads of various Greeks before it landed on the Hebrew letter Gimel. “More chocolate candy coins for me,” says Jet, while everybody has a nice chuckle.

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