Reply to Interfaith families raising Jewish kids -- talk to me about the December dilemma

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Interfaith families raising Jewish kids -- talk to me about the December dilemma"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We celebrate both in our house too.  DW was brougt up vaguely Catholic, I was brought up Jewish.  We agreed to raise the kids Jewish, but DW wanted to keep the tradition of celebrating Christmas - and I don't blame her.

So we have a secular Christmas - a tree, ornaments, Christmas morning, Santa - the whole kit and kaboodle, but no Jesus.  It's just a special time to create memories and be with family and appreciate everything we have.

[b]But we go to Temple, kids have been Bar Mitzvahed, and we celebrate all the Jewish holidays.

The kids get it.  They understand that they are Jewish kids[/b], and a secular Christmas doesn't make them any less so.

Christmas and Chanukah both have their origins as pagan holidays anyway.[/quote]

I wonder what your kids' families will be like -- I suspect even less Jewish, the way things are going. [/quote]

Doubtful. her kids have a jewish identity. As has been said upthread, that's more predictive of their future identities than the degree to which they embrace Christmas. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics