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Questions about the NYT’s ‘Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah’
Jewish Press ^ | December 14, 2020 | JNS News Service

Posted on 12/14/2020 8:44:28 AM PST by SJackson

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1 posted on 12/14/2020 8:44:28 AM PST by SJackson
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How can she “say goodbye” to a tradition she never practiced in the first place? Sounds like an attention-seeker.


2 posted on 12/14/2020 8:47:22 AM PST by River Hawk
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So Sara, a Unitarian, and her non-Jewish wife have ceased to celebrate Chanukah. This is news to the NYT. I suppose they have to fill up editorial space. What else is there to write about? Election fraud? Hunter Biden? Better to pontificate about two Christians who no longer celebrate Chanukah, perhaps as a message to their liberal Jewish readers.

3 posted on 12/14/2020 8:47:23 AM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: River Hawk
Sounds like an attention-seeker.

Could be. I can't imagine why her parents, Jewish father and Catholic mother raising her as Unitarian would have celebrated it in the first place. As to attention, she's a self described queer historian, not quite sure how that fits either. But it got her on the NYT editorial page.

4 posted on 12/14/2020 8:50:41 AM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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Had the article been about any trendy pagan religion, the article would not have been published.

Had the article been about Islam the writer would have been fired.

Since the article was about Judaism it was published.

If the article had been about Christianity, it would have been on the front page on Christmas Eve...


5 posted on 12/14/2020 8:51:55 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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6 posted on 12/14/2020 8:52:54 AM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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Time for the annual NYT ¨attack a Jewish or Christian holiday” article. Their hit piece on Christmas is no doubt coming next week.

That said, this piece is really a reach. Usually it’s just the lesbian ‘rabbi’ presiding over some parody of a ceremony. I notice that they did manage to get a lesbian in there, of course, since this confused woman is supposedly married to another woman. Unless maybe one of them really identifies as a man?


7 posted on 12/14/2020 8:53:16 AM PST by livius
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And when you dig down into the original article cited by the author, you get to the NYT "money line". And you get the answer to pretty much any question the author might have as to why the NYT felt it fit to publish:

Pride in June is my favorite holiday, but this year, the first as our completed family of four, we couldn’t go to a parade. I missed that much more than any holiday rooted in a religion that isn’t mine. I hope that the balloons, floats and rainbows that typically mark its celebration will be a special part of my children’s memories as they grow, and that they anticipate our invented Pride Fairy’s gifts as much as the Easter Bunny’s.
8 posted on 12/14/2020 8:53:58 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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Can you imagine an article about a white 3rd grade teacher titled “Saying Goodbye To Kwanzaa”?


9 posted on 12/14/2020 8:54:44 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Viking2002

Happy Number 11!

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10 posted on 12/14/2020 8:54:57 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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Disgusting. Two mentally ill atheist female perverts’ views. How many readers does the NYT still have?


11 posted on 12/14/2020 8:55:12 AM PST by little jeremiah (Thirst for truth is the most valuable possession and no one can take it away from you.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Rest assured the NYT will have an article about Jewish families celebrating Christmas approaching Christmas eve. After all, it’s just a present holiday and everyone likes presents. All in the pursuit of demeaning religion. Judeo-Christian religion. As you note, a similar article about Islam would have consequences.


12 posted on 12/14/2020 8:55:23 AM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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These days it’s all about Kwanzaa and Diwali.
We had a brief respite during the Trump term.
Before that it was Eid Al-Fitr under Grand Caliph Baraq.


13 posted on 12/14/2020 8:55:28 AM PST by nascarnation
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The first paragraph says to me that this woman is so ****ed as to be utterly worthless.The opinions of worthless people mean less than nothing to me.


14 posted on 12/14/2020 8:55:45 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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How can she “say goodbye” to a tradition she never practiced in the first place? Sounds like an attention-seeker.

This was just a promotion for the "pride parade" and how it's every bit or more of a holiday than any religious one. It even attempts to inject a "pride fairy" into the public consciousness.
15 posted on 12/14/2020 8:57:27 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: Viking2002

Then they came for Festivus-and then there was no one left to speak for me.


16 posted on 12/14/2020 8:59:20 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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New York Times, The Home Depot, they all march to the same WOKE agenda. The Depot, headquartered in the snake pit that Atlanta GA has become, no doubt caved to Muslim activist groups who visited them and mailed them letters from their attorneys threatening lawsuits for discriminatory religious practices in its stores. Placing the corporation on notice the Christmas music it has always played over its PA system at Christmas is offensive to Muslims who practice Islam and shop its stores. So now the Christmas music is gone. Completely. No push-back from the Catholic Church on this or boycotting of the stores by Catholic do-it-your-self-ers or contractors. Nope. We all just lie down while the enemy disassembles us, bit by bit.


17 posted on 12/14/2020 8:59:58 AM PST by 4Runner
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How many readers does the NYT still have?

Both of them.

18 posted on 12/14/2020 9:01:56 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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I’m guessing this story was published because it was a slow day for news. Why does it matter to the rest of us what holiday someone chooses not to celebrate?


19 posted on 12/14/2020 9:02:43 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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"She and her non-Jewish wife"

Stopped reading there. No point in reading the ravings of an insane person.

20 posted on 12/14/2020 9:06:20 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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