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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a nasty thread and I am amazed that nobody wants to call out the op.

It is your stepdaughters home for the time being as well.  She knowingly married a man with a Christian daughter.  Let her have a damn tree - it's not going to hurt you.

As a Christian I would never want someone under my roof to feel unloved including the celebration of their religious holidays.

I think sour op wants to pretend she doesn't have stepchildren, or worse, is afraid folks will gossip at her temple about her Christmas tree.

I feel sorry for that stepdaughter who clearly has no home.  I guess she's just a shiksa though.[/quote]

You just don't get it.  As a Jew, I'm very worried about my children assimilating into the dominant Christian culture.  You act like we can just have a tree in the house and that's fine.  It isn't.  For Christians, you can dabble in other people's traditions and that's fine, because you're the vast majority.  Jews aren't.  We have to constantly guard against assimilation.  That means, among other things, keeping a Jewish home.  A house with a Christmas tree isn't a Jewish home.  OP cannot accommodate both the stepdaughter and her own desire to have a Jewish home.  PERIOD.  They're mutually exclusive.[/quote]

While I agree with you, my heart breaks for the non Jewish stepdaughter who can't celebrate how she traditionally does. I spent Christmas by myself once and it was the most depressing day I can remember. It's normally a family day, but instead she'll be with a stepmother who says she can't celebrate because she isn't religious enough.

I think the stepdaughter needs to spend Christmas elsewhere. [/quote]

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