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[quote=Anonymous]I am sure some people consider it appropriation but I have several Jewish friends who don't and when my (totally secular) DD expressed an interest in the menorah and Hanukah, one of those friends bought her one with a book about the tradition and it's meaning so we've been doing it the last few years. I have not put it in the window but would be happy to do so as a form of solidarity with Jewish friends and neighbors.

Hanukah and Purim have always struck me as Jewish traditions that people are happy to share with non-Jews. It's not like trying to take yom kippur off of work and fasting -- they are festive holidays with seasonal implications, more cultural than religious.

It doesn't seem that different from putting up a Christmas tree and exchanging gifts on the 25th, which my family also does even though we are not Christian. As with Hanukah, we taught DD where these traditions come from and why people do them (both the Christian and pagan Yule origins). Some of our ancestors were Christians, some pagans, perhaps even some Jewish -- we are both European mutts.

None of this seems like appropriation to me because we aren't pretending to be anything we're not.[/quote]

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