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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we celebrate Christmas, but we’re an interfaith family. DH and I were raised Jewish, but one side of each of our families is Catholic. Religion is primarily a cultural/family history thing for us, so celebrating Christmas is about connecting with our family’s culture. Plus it’s fun.

I guess it’s not technically inconsistent with Judaism to celebrate Christmas, though. Jews see Jesus as a prophet, just not the son of God and the Savior, so celebrating his birthday seems fine to me. Celebrating Easter would be a little weird, IMO. [/quote]

Jews DO NOT see Jesus as a prophet  :shock: ! Muslims do, but Jews do not.

Jews have no religious relationship with Jesus at all.[/quote]

This is correct.  Jews can have any view of Jesus any secular person would have. I know some who read the non miracle parts of the NT as history, and so consider him a "great rabbi" (based on NT statements of his knowledge).  Some traditional Jews take more seriously the parts of NT where he seems to disrespect the rabbis of his time, and in turn refer to him disrespectfully.  But most modern Jews follow secular scholars in treating the NT as an unreliable source, and consider our certainty about the "historical Jesus" limited.

But  Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi were the last prophets in Judaism.[/quote]

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