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10 ways Jews can lose the Christmas blues
The Times of Israel ^
| 12/10/2014
| Nina Badzin
Posted on 12/10/2014 7:08:45 PM PST by Former Fetus
We Jews have two choices in our approach to the Christmas season: resent it or embrace it. I for one vote for a big, sloppy embrace. In the name of love thy neighbor and tolerance, I say we hug it out with Christmas already and teach our kids to do the same.
Why? We expect our non-Jewish co-workers, friends and neighbors to show heaps of interest and concern in all things Jewish. During the High Holidays we ask our kids’ teachers not to assign big tests after those long days at shul. We offer unsolicited explanations about why Hanukkah is not, despite unfortunate evidence to the contrary, the most important event on our calendar. For the week of Passover we bore everyone we know with the reasons we’re eating matzah and other weird stuff. (Yes, gentile co-worker, that “Kosher for Passover” salad dressing seems over the top to me, too.)
Tolerance is a two-way street. It would be chutzpadik and a bad example to our kids not to muster up some genuine interest in a holiday celebrated by a significant majority of our fellow citizens. So with that being said …
10 steps to lose the attitude at Christmas
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: christmas; coexisting; jews
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To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/10/2014 8:44:05 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: Former Fetus
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posted on
12/10/2014 8:48:40 PM PST
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Boogieman
Look up Joel Kopischke & his CD “I got Yule, babe”.
His version of “That’s amore” (”That’s a menorah”) is hilarious.
I’m Catholic, FWIW.
;^)
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12/10/2014 8:51:35 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("I am a radicalized infidel.")
To: SamAdams76; Gay State Conservative
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posted on
12/10/2014 9:09:20 PM PST
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: SamAdams76; Gay State Conservative
My favorite version of
The Little Drummer Boy is the original, by the Harry Simeone Chorale, from 1958. Simeone, who co-wrote the tune, was the director and choral arranger on NBC's
The Voice of Firestone, which we would watch every Monday night on our Majestic TV. He was a mover and shaker on the Hollywood music scene for decades.
To: Former Fetus
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posted on
12/10/2014 10:00:46 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Former Fetus
"We Jews have two choices in our approach to the Christmas season: resent it or embrace it."
That's interesting. There are many Noachides who don't resent it, embrace it, miss it or even notice it much.
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12/10/2014 10:45:51 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Former Fetus
“We Jews have two choices in our approach to the Christmas season: resent it or embrace it.”
Resent it or embrace it? A Dilemma?
How about turning it into a quagmire.
Resent it, embrace it or respect it as you expect others
to respect your own quips and whims.
That would twist this broad up a little.
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12/10/2014 11:56:03 PM PST
by
Slambat
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