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[quote=Anonymous]Why are you asking this in June? But I'll answer anyway.

I'm ethnically Jewish and I celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday. However, I don't push others to celebrate if they don't want to. The most I'll do is give a gift wrapped in Christmas paper or in a Christmas gift bag.

One reason I celebrate Christmas is because it makes the winter enjoyable. The winter itself is terrible, at least for me. It's freezing, it gets dark early, seasonal affective disorder, etc. Christmas makes the winters pleasurable. I enjoy putting up a tree in my home, looking at decorations and lights, singing along to the Christmas songs that play on the stores radio, listening to orchestral music, caroling, baking cookies, buying and wrapping presents, having Christmas dinner with my family, etc. I don't do the religious stuff, like Jesus or the manger.

Also, did you know that 11 popular Christmas songs were written by Jews? Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer was written by Johnny Marks, who was Jewish. He also wrote Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and A Holly Jolly Christmas. Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne wrote Let It Snow. Silver Bells was written by the songwriting duo Ray Evans and Jay Livingston. Both of them were born to Jewish families. In fact, Livingston's original last name was Levison. It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year was written by George Wyle and Edward Pola. Here is a full list of the Christmas songs written by my people.

https://www.kveller.com/11-iconic-christmas-songs-that-were-written-by-jews/[/quote]

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