Jewish families

[Anonymous]

I celebrate Christmas, my bosses are Jewish. Would it be offensive if I give a gift before my Christmas break or should I give the gift during Hanukkah? Do I have to buy 8(?) presents each day for MB and the kids? What would make a nice gift for MB? I'm clueless about Hanukkah and don't know. Thank in advance

[Anonymous]

I have worked for several Jewish families. We always exchanged gifts before Christmas break. Do not buy eight gifts, I think your employers would not expect you to...

[Anonymous]

I celebrate Xmas and worked for a Jewish family once.
I bought the kids one present for Hannukah (the last day) and another one for Xmas.
The parents got me a present for Xmas too

[Anonymous]

I would just buy them one present, and give it whenever you want, or ask the parents when they think it would be the best time. Communication is always a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I celebrate Christmas, my bosses are Jewish. Would it be offensive if I give a gift before my Christmas break or should I give the gift during Hanukkah? Do I have to buy 8(?) presents each day for MB and the kids? What would make a nice gift for MB? I'm clueless about Hanukkah and don't know. Thank in advance

Hanukah is before Christmas (it pretty much always is) so it'd be weird if you waited until it had ended and THEN gave them a gift (what, for Christmas? a holiday they don't celebrate?). You can google "when is Hanukah 2012" and the dates will pop up. You should NOT buy 8 presents. ONE present.

A nice gift for the mom would be ... well, how much are you looking to spend? Does she cook? Jewish holidays often involve a lot of frying foods in oil (for Hanukah, it's latkes) so I sometimes give an aloe plant, because aloe soothes burns.

You can give the MB anything as long as it's not Christmas-oriented.

[Anonymous]

Hanukkah is dec 8-16 this year, so why would you give the gifts after Christmas?

[Anonymous]

Give the noon a photo book our something related to the kids. I'd give when you want...midle of Chanukah, the last day. I always did 8 gifts for the kids but kept them small...matchbox cars, little golden books etc and made a scavenger hunt for them to find the gift after I left. I gave a bigger on the last night.

[Anonymous]

You CERTAINLY DO NOT need to give 8 gifts!!! lol. No. Give whenever. Would you be offended if a jewish person gave you a christmas gift during hanukkah? probably not. ;P

[Anonymous]

Buy one gift, wrap it in non- Christmas paper, attach a Happy Holidays card and give it to them on the day before you leave for Christmas.