[freedumb2003]

>>This is a scary tale.<<

It is just as we were all told: THEY EAT BABIES!!!

;)

[raccoonradio]

>>being the first to see the Christmas blockbuster

Novelty song by Tommy and the Greyhounds

Oh it’s a Technicolor Christmas when you’re Jewish, because the moviehouses never close
I get my kicks down at the flicks, while other people kiss beneath the mistletoe

While others are eating their Christmas treats, no ushers ‘round to tell us, get your feet off the seats...

While others dream of riding in an open sleigh
We’ve got a date with Yentl on this special day...

sample
http://www.madmusic.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=46918

[SamAdams76]

Interesting article. But if it is considered work to tear toilet paper on the Sabbath, isn't it also work to actually use the toilet paper - even if it was pre-torn back on Christmas Eve?

I always did wonder how the tradition started for the Jews to eat chinese food on Christmas. Why chinese food?

It is a tradition in my family to eat chinese food on New Year's Eve. In fact, I cannot imagine a New Year's Eve without fried rice, teriyaki beef, sweet & sour pork, egg rolls and enough scorpion bowls to make my head spin.

[Daveinyork]

I’m a Jew, who has spent a lot of time studying Jewish history, and I admit to never hearing about this one. It doesn’t aurprise me as the period of transition from the middle ages to the modern age was one of great upheaval and uncertainty, with the mini ice age thrown in for good measure. People’s worlds were being torn apart. Mysticism and supersticion permeated all Western religions, and in Judaism, it was the period of the false messiahs. Religious practices born of mysticism and supersticion began, and many are, to this day, erroneously considered to be ancient customs.

I could believe that “Nittel Nacht” could be one of them. Christmas trees and Santa Clause could be others, as would knocking on wood.

[Daveinyork]

The only reason we eat Chinese food on Christmas Eve is that non-Christian Chinese are the only ones who keep their restaurants open. We plan to eat Chinese this Christmas Eve.

[ml/nj]

The Talmud, with its share of rabbinic repudiations against Jesus, was never a big fan of Christmas.

This is bogus. The most there MIGHT be in the Talmud is a few CODED references to Jesus.

To my mind, the Jewish thing to do is to wish our Christian friends a joyous Christmas.

ML/NJ

[ladyL]

Before ANYONE makes a comment on this post you MUST watch a teaching by Jim Staley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7k0_IX3Roo

Please educate yourself with the Truth before you decide if the Jewish people’s adverse reaction was not appropriate.

[Moose Burger]

“...and that no Torah learning take place on this night.”

Not buying it. Something so serious as to stop the learning would not be so cryptic as to not be more widely known.

[hecht]

Eating Chinese food is done by secular trieife eaters

[MarkL]

Slate “magazine,” where anyone who dares practice their religion is some sort of monster...

Let me tell you about another Christmas Eve and Christmas Day tradition celebrated by many religious Jews, all over the world.

Many Jews will take up positions at homeless shelters to give the regular volunteers the time to spend Christmas with their families. Many Jews volunteer to take shifts of Christian co-workers, so they won’t have to work on Christmas.

Not all Jews fear Christians, nor do they hate Christians, as slate would have the masses believe.

As usual from slate, an ugly screed filled with hate against Believers, trying to sow distension and distrust between Believers.

Mark

[jjotto]

Better treatment:

http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2007/12/nittel-nacht-christmas-eve.html

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