Chanukah Hope Amidst the Unthinkable   Hope is the very message of Chanukah.  Yet, tonight we feel hopelessness.   After such heartbreak in our community and our country, how do we move forward? Tonight we light one candle to remind ourselves of the miracle of a day's worth of oil that lasted for 8 nights.  Since our ancestors knew they had enough oil to burn for one day, it's reasonable to think that the first  night of Chanukah was not a miracle at all. It might stand to re