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[quote=Anonymous]OP's husband married a Jew, committed to raising Jewish children and lives in a Jewish home. Everyone who opines on how OP married a Christian and that means she has to live in an interfaith household and accommodate non-Jewish traditions are simply wrong. OP's home is a Jewish one and she is well within her rights to live in her Jewish home as she wishes. Her SD is a new and very welcomed guest in her home, but if there is any accommodation required, it is from the SD, who is not living in a Christian home.

To everyone who thinks trees are no big deal and that OP should just "compromise" by allowing a tree in her home, you just don't get it. For many Jews, a Christmas tree is a huge Christian symbol and they believe that this symbol has no place in a Jewish home. There is nothing wrong with that belief. It isn't a compromise to allow a tree just because you, the dominant culture, think it is a fine secular thing. It doesn't matter what you think. For many Jews, it is not at all a secular thing and it is a big deal and there is nothing wrong in that.

OP is trying, correctly so, in my opinion, to make everyone, including her Christian SD, comfortable in her home. A small tree in some area of her home is a very generous accommodation. Anything else that feels like it compromises her Jewish home is not appropriate.

OP's husband is a lucky man for having such a thoughtful spouse.[/quote]

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