Reply to Is anyone else here Jewish and celebrate Christmas?

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Is anyone else here Jewish and celebrate Christmas?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, thank you for this thread. We just moved to this country, and my kid just went to middle school here. First day she comes back and tells us that when her science teacher announced that in the end of the year they are going to build a ginger bread house as a science project. Immediately, the girl who was siting next to my daughter turned to her and told her that because she is Jewish, my daughter has to build a ginger bread house for her.

We all were so confused at home and laughed very hard. We are not Americans. We are Christians who celebrate Christmas. But we had no clue what is a ginger bread house, what does it has to do with Christianity or Judaism. I honestly think that the little Jewish girl is so confused (and perhaps has parents who are clueless).

Reading this thread helps me to understand the mentality of American jewish :)

[/quote]
There is no “mentality of the American Jewish.” Jews who have roots all over the world, in many denominations, live all over the US. In fact, I live in a small town with one synagogue in our whole region, with Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and humanist members, and we’re having trouble with our rabbi search because many of us don’t agree with what we need for our congregation as Jews.

Please don’t let one snotty comment from a child lead you to those beliefs about all American Jews. [/quote]

How do you even know the girl said that? This is 2nd hand, from a child whose first language who may not even be English, to a parent whose first language is not English.  I seriously doubt the Jewish girl instructed PP's daughter to make a gingerbread house for her.  More likely she just said that she wouldn't be doing it.  As she should -- a gingerbread house is a traditional Christmas craft.  Yes, it can be secular, but a Jewish family is perfectly within their rights to decline to do traditional Christmas crafts IN SCHOOL.  [/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