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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Jewish family here. No Christmas in our home, but happy to participate in friends' holiday celebrations in their homes. I have always felt it is really important to set up unambiguous Jewish identity for kids. That's obviously much more than a mere absence of Christmas, but families that intend to stay Jewish across generations stand a far better chance if kids grow up really feeling they are not part of the mainstream culture and really shouldn't disappear into it.

Hanukkah observance is modest and mostly for kids, but let's remember it is also about a victory over pressure to assimilate both religiously and culturally. In increasingly embattled times like today, when the Right has a problem with our stubborn religiousness and maybe our too-ethnic DNA and the Left has a problem with us if we insist on maintaining our particularity (and any kind of religious outlook or observance that would have been at all recognizable to our ancestors) Hanukkah actually offers great comfort. [/quote]
So Hanukkah is the Jewish Christmas 
Is sneering at Christmas the way to isolate the kids from the mainstream culture?
So what if someone has a holiday you do not celebrate? No need to hate a holiday you do not celebrate

I suspect your kids do feel isolated already anyway [/quote]

What a horrid response. Hope your kids have less hate in their hearts. [/quote]

NP. Actually, PP is just pointing out the hate in your own heart. [/quote]

Yikes. Someone’s getting a lump of coal…and hopefully a shrink. [/quote]

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