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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Jewish and don't celebrate Christmas. I enjoy the beautiful, decorated trees in others' homes and stores as well as the festive lights on people's homes. But we ourselves do not have a tree nor light up our house for Christmas. We don't do santa, have stockings, or give presents to each other for Christmas. I will bake cookies during the holidays and share them with neighbors or particpate in an angel tree program through work or scouts and am happy to attend a Christmas party at a friend's house and things of that nature.

I think many Jews don't celebrate Christmas despite the secular trappings associated with it because of the history of the Jewish people often being forced to convert to Christianity and resisiting, crusades, Spanish inquisition, etc. And celebrating the birth of the Jesus who Christians believe to be the messiah but Jews do not would be like celebrating that a day to commemorate that the earth is round when you believe it to be flat.

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+1.  Although many aspects of Xmas have been secularized, the holiday and its trappings remain fundamentally Christian.  I don't think most Jews, particularly those who live in areas with decent Jewish populations, celebrate even the more secular aspects of Xmas. We certainly don't.[/quote]

+2 We never celebrated it growing up.  I give my husband a gift who is not religious but brought up Christian.  We've had a tiny tree just for the Christmas eve and day in the past (some years, not all) and a gift or two each but that's it since I have no interest in it.  I only do a tree at all for my inlaws, who are amazing people.[/quote]

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