Hunakkah Lights - NPR Presentation Author:Chaim Potok, Sholem Aleichem, Rebecca Goldstein "Nightingales in a War Zone" by Chaim Potok and performed by Joel Grey--an American soldier stationed in the Far East in the fateful winter of 1956 contemplates war, prejudice and history. "Gifts of the Last Night" by Rebecca Goldstein and read by Lainie Kazan--on a wild New York night, the eighth of the Festival of Lights, Pearl encounters a wr... more »iter in a restaurant and learns about the most important gift of all. And "Go Toward the Light" written and read by Harlan Ellison--a quest back through time answers some spiritual and mechanical questions about the nature of the first Hanukkah.« less