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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BTW..Easter/Passover is much more complicated to explain to a young child.[/quote]

Actually, it isn't.  My 4 year old has a rudimentary understanding of Passover, and we've done seders with him since he was 1.  There are kid-appropriate ways to do the passover seder-- we have toys and books, etc.  [/quote]

Ha! Passover, complicated? It boils down to one line: "we were slaves and now we're free." Also a significant part of the seder is explicitly about how to explain the story to kids and people at different levels of understanding/intelligence.

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and keep in mind that it is a story, without any archeological or historical evidence to back it up.   Jewish Academics have come up empty-handed on the exodus but have found plenty of evidence that ancient hebrews lived in ancient Israel all along.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed[/quote]

True. Though to keep this non-Santa tangent going, there IS lot of evidence that Jews were living in Egypt shortly AFTER the Biblical Exodus is supposed to have taken place -- see Simon Schama's [i][url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/books/review/the-story-of-the-jews-by-simon-schama.html]The Story of the Jews[/url][/i] for some fascinating details on everyday life in a large Jewish community in Elaphantine, on the upper Nile. [/quote]

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