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To: carrier-aviator
Wow. Ok, I'll call my old office and tell them that you demand they change the name of their party. Not that it is your call to make, but you seem to be a bit unbalanced, so, best to give in and hope you don't go nuts.

Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah are both in September. Have you attended "Holiday Parties" in that month too?

Here's ther difference: In Judaism, our holidays are actually religious. Jews go to shul for most of the day on Rosh Hashanah. Even liberal Jews actually show up. And BTW, we do refer to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as "the High Holy Days" or "the High Holidays".

In the push to sell more, marketers have Chanukah into something it never was. Chanukah is a military voctory. It's nowhere near as important as Pesach, Succot, Shavuot, etc.

105 posted on 11/09/2004 2:28:50 PM PST by Bella_Bru (Proud member of La Kosher Nostra and the IZC)
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To: Bella_Bru

And to millions upon millions of Americans Christmas is a Holy Day as well. The federal government deemed that fact SO important that it officially recognized Christmas as worthy of designation as a holiday for ALL Americans.


106 posted on 11/09/2004 2:31:00 PM PST by carrier-aviator
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To: Bella_Bru
Here's ther difference: In Judaism, our holidays are actually religious.

Huh?

The celebration of the birth of Christ is not religious?

243 posted on 12/20/2004 3:18:06 PM PST by Eaker ("He's the kind of guy who would fight a rattlesnake and give the snake a two-bite head start.")
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