The "chr*stmas wars" have been particularly hard for me this year, with chr*stmas supposedly representing piety and the "old ways" and Chanukkah (G-d forbid) irreverence and modernity. I have tried very hard to show that this is not the case. I don't know if I have succeeded, but I hope this poor effort of mine will fine grace in your eyes and of the community of Israel.
Concerning the Christmas Wars many Protestant groups (that are generally unknown to the public at large) avoid Christmas itself because of its association with "Santa Claus".
In my research into how the Sa'ami came to America, and how their Little Red Man concept seems to have become very much a part of the Santa Claus image, I finally realized that the Anti-Christmas fundamentalist Chrisitan groups were mostly Scandinavian in origin, and it really was Little Red Man, Herb Woman and Reindeer Man they were rejecting ~ in part because it was a recent part of their people's own fairly recent pagan past, but also because of the old religion's association with the use of amanita muscaria, a red hallucinogenic mushroom with white spots, much beloved of Sa'ami shamen as well as reindeer.
The secularists, however, seem to be the sort of folk who highly prise unregulated recreational use of hallucinogenic drugs, so their war on Christmas seems a tad mysterious, and possibly simply misinformed!