[goldstategop]

There IS a Jewish case for "Merry Christmas." Jews are commanded to spread ethical monotheism. And second, Jews are much safer in Christian America than they are in post-Christian (and increasingly Islamified) Europe. The alternative pushed by the Left, is the future of post-modern moral relativism and at a later date, "Allahu Akbar." Neither are very friendly to the prospects of Jewish survival. This is the exactly why Jews should welcome living in the one nation that still says "Merry Christmas."

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[goldstategop]

A good Christmas carol from my Lutheran childhood:

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!
Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit,
Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!
Wie oft hat nicht zur Weihnachtszeit
Ein Baum von dir mich hoch erfreut!
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren:
Die Hoffnung und Beständigkeit
Gibt Trost und Kraft zu jeder Zeit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Das soll dein Kleid mich lehren.

[Alexander Rubin]

Very glad you posted this, goldstategop.

Ping!

[Alouette]

Would it be disrespectful for a clerk in Tel Aviv to wish someone a “Happy Hanukkah”?

The usual greeting is Hag Sameach ("Happy Holidays!") The only holiday that has a unique traditional greeting is Rosh Hashana.

[Tanniker Smith]

By the way, Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow both have Christmas (not "Holiday") albums. And Babs doesn't stick to "Winter Wonderland" -- she goes straight for "Ave Maria!"

And whatever you think of her politics or her talent, you have to admit that she's one of the few that has the voice to do justice to that hymn. (And few of the others who can will ever be household names.)

Anyway, I don't own those albums, but my wife (check my tagline) does, and had there ever been a problem with my playing Christmas CDs in the office, they would've shown up the next day.

[sageb1]

This reminds me of an incident at a school south of me about 20 years ago. The school had a tradition of celebrating the outstanding artwork of its students by exhibiting it throughout the school building. One student's painting was of the Crucifixion. This artwork had been hanging on the wall for a number of years. A Jewish couple moved to the school district with their child. Within a very short time after enrolling their child at the school, they had filed a lawsuit against the school saying that their child was made uncomfortable by this particular painting. After a year of raging debate, the school removed the painting.

This was my personal introduction to the War on Christianity. Ironically, our own elementary school principal was Jewish, and not only did he organize Christmas caroling, he strolled through the neighborhood, singing carols with us, both secular and religious. No one does that anymore. You can't even hear kids sing religious carols at a Christmas concert anymore.

The awesome spirituality is gone from the public arena.

[GMMAC]

Thanks for posting!
Pretty amazing Don Feder could actually top himself this late in the year !!!

PING!

[Jabba the Nutt]

"Cristkindlmarket (literally: Christ candle market"

Actually, Christkindlmarket means Christ Child Market. So, the City of Chicago bans the movie "The Nativity" about the birth of the Christ child from the Christ Child Market festival. I'm not making this up.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Krusty's cool with it

[Eva]

considering that 90% of the Jewish vote went to the Democrats in the last election, I don't think that there are very many religious Jews. Moral relativity, not God based morality seems to be the mission of 90% of the Jews in this country.

[unionblue83]

Agree with your take on this wholeheartedly. I am still waiting for soemone to ask if this PC crap offends me. YES IT DOES. Sorry, I am part of the 95% referred to in the article.

[unionblue83]

Agree with your take on this wholeheartedly. I am still waiting for soemone to ask if this PC crap offends me. YES IT DOES. Sorry, I am part of the 95% referred to in the article.

[Tribune7]

God Bless Don Feder

[grjr21]

So why should a Jew care if a store clerk says “Merry Christmas?”

From my experience they could care less , as long as nobody is trying to kill or convert them.
I grew up going to public school in a Jewish neighborhood and my grade school used to hang up Merry Christmas signs every year.

Yesterday I stopped into a local Shop & Bag store and on the front door there were Happy Hanukkah and Happy Quanza signs and back by the Deli counter there was a sign that read Seasons Greetings but nothing that said  Merry Christmas . Unfortunately I was running short on time and wasn't able to stop and talk to the manager but I plan on making some time latter on this week to ask him why not.

[Mamzelle]

You know, the fact that Feder felt the need to write this article, and Horowitz the need to publish it...says a lot. How utterly discouraging.

[Dov in Houston]

Personally, coming from a Jew

"Merry Christmas to all and may you all have a Happy New Year"

America was founded on Judeo-Christian values and Merry Christmas is part of America.

[Yardstick]

As far as these retailers go, why not add some Hanukkah rather than subtracting the Christmas? If the PC types were truly interested in diversity and avoiding excludedness, that would seem like the better route. It wouldn't bother me a bit to hear the occasional Hanukkah song and see a menorah in a shop window. In fact, that seems kind of nice. As for the atheists, their religion would be represented by the empty spaces between the Christmas trees and the Stars of David. So everyone's happy.