How is Christmas celebrated in a Jewish home?

**lutor3f** · 09-02-2006, 01:05 AM

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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.

**skifree** · 09-02-2006, 01:48 AM

spaaaaaam

**BakerBoy** · 09-02-2006, 02:57 AM

It take pharmaceuticals to be Jewish in the US nowadays? Does that mean they get easy access to all sorts of fun shit? I'm feeling like spinning the dredel once or twice.

**String** · 09-02-2006, 11:12 AM

lots of coke and hookers

**pechelman** · 09-02-2006, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by String

lots of coke and hookers

an lots of f'in potato latke's

**gregb22** · 09-02-2006, 11:35 AM

eating kafilta fish (spelling is probably wrong) with motza balls, while lighting crack rocks off the manorah

**pechelman** · 09-02-2006, 11:38 AM

gefilte and matzo and menorah

**Beaver** · 09-02-2006, 06:37 PM

I had a jewish roommate for a couple years. Christmas morning the tunes came on full blast like every other morning. Then the coffee went on and the bowl was broken out. A little while later we'd hop in my bug and go to the hill were I'd be a liftee for an hour or so until Heimy Goldman came and dragged me off touring. I'd abandon my post leaving my fellow liftee to watch the chair for a few hours. We usually took 3-4 runs on Roberts then I returned to my post and sent fellow liftee home while I finished the shift. When I arrived home Goldy had plans so we went out and ate food and got hosed. The main difference between a regular day and Christmas was the massive amounts of food to be had everywhere. I didn't know Jewish folk were different than us regular honkies.

**MacDaddy** · 09-03-2006, 12:34 AM

I am .5 %full fuking beaner! or at least half beaner, and the Jwish people (that I know) are uncomfortable when I talk about (it) them! So obviously Im still weirded out, about WHY? why Im so special!???

perhaps >............

edit: its usually the "blondes" that get weirded out...

**MacDaddy** · 09-03-2006, 01:16 AM

Im like a "Beatles" song..... slide guitar at its best...disturbed I want you so bad!

**splat** · 09-03-2006, 01:49 AM

You'll always be Lucy to me.

**MacDaddy** · 09-03-2006, 01:53 AM

Lucy was 'lubed' by plasticine, which makes her sinthetic, as well as disturbing~

WTF?

**splat** · 09-03-2006, 01:57 AM

"sinthetic"

I like that.

**MacDaddy** · 09-03-2006, 02:05 AM

Thanks! It was cultured. So really no thanks. Do you tell a rich man that he was lucky when he was born in to it?

SINTHETIC

**splat** · 09-03-2006, 02:10 AM

Just tell him about Lucy. That's all he'll need to know.
The more bad luck he has, the closer he is to some good luck.
Lucy will get him through it.

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**MacDaddy** · 09-03-2006, 02:12 AM

SHIT HERE WE GO AGAIN!

THE FUKING CHRISTIANS STEALING THE carpenter

**MacDaddy** · 09-03-2006, 02:31 AM

LUCY had the biggest tits in 5th grade!

but I swear she wasnt a 5th grader!

she lied to me!

**HyRUPz** · 09-03-2006, 07:43 AM

To answer your question, they don't.

I might convert from Catholic tradition to Kawanzaa, sounds interesting.

Still my favorite religion = Rastafarian

; kinda blends everything together, with a lion and shit ...

**Evil E** · 09-03-2006, 12:26 PM

We usually seek out telemarketers and internet spammers and make them shove phones and keyboards up their asses at gunpoint.

**schindlerpiste** · 09-03-2006, 01:34 PM

www.jewfaq.org/xmas.htm

What Do Jews Do on Christmas?
Christmas is not a Jewish holiday. Many Christians think of Christmas as an American holiday, a secular holiday or a cultural holiday, but most Jews do not think of Christmas that way. According to the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, 82% of Jewish households never have a Christmas tree. See http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/cjstu/36th.jpg. I strongly suspect that this statistic isn't entirely accurate, because I know that many Jews with small children have Christmas trees to keep their children from feeling deprived or left out of the aggressively-marketed Christmas season. However, at the very least, the statistic shows that 82% of Jewish families are unwilling to admit to a surveyor that they ever had one.

Most Jews (even many highly assimilated Jews) are uncomfortable about Christmas. We don't object to Christians celebrating Christmas, but we don't particularly want to celebrate it ourselves, and there is enormous social pressure to celebrate Christmas, whether we want to or not. As one Jewish writer said, "just try telling a Christmas enthusiast that the creche in front of your post office makes you un-easy; suddenly, 'frosty' describes more than just the snowman." Many secular Christians have told me that Christmas is my holiday too, and some of them get very angry or even nasty when I tell them that I don't want to celebrate it, calling me "Grinch" or "Scrooge." I have no doubt that before this Christmas season is over, I will receive a few emails telling me that I should celebrate Christmas; I get them every year.

So if Jews don't celebrate Christmas, then what do we do on December 25?

It's tough to find something to do on Christmas, because just about everything is closed. Here are a few of the more popular December 25 activities for Jews.

Go out for Chinese food
Many Jews go out for Chinese food on Christmas. The Chinese do not celebrate Christmas any more than we do, so most Chinese restaurants are open on Christmas. In Philadelphia and New York, there are several kosher-certified Chinese restaurants to choose from, so that even the most observant Jew can eat Chinese on Christmas. This popular option was somewhat limited on December 25, 2001, because Christmas fell on the Fast of Tevet! Fortunately, this will not happen again until 2020!
Go to the Matzah Ball
In some cities, Jewish singles organizations sponsor "Matzah Balls," Jewish singles dances, on Christmas Eve or Christmas night.
Go to a movie
Many movie theaters are open on Christmas day, particularly in the afternoon (after 4PM). In fact, in 1998, a friend and I went to see The Prince of Egypt in a local theater on the afternoon of Christmas day.
Get together with family
It's often tough to get the whole family together for dinner, especially when the children are grown up or not living in the immediate area. Christmas is a time when everybody is sure to have the day off. Some families do this do it with a vague sense of guilt at celebrating Christmas, and often repeatedly remind each other that "we're not celebrating Christmas, it's just a convenient time to have a family get-together."
Go to work
Jewish people often volunteer to work on Christmas, especially if they work in 24/7 community service jobs like hospitals, newspapers, or police departments. This allows their Christian co-workers to get the day off, and gives the Jewish worker an extra day off at some other time of the year, when everything isn't closed. Even if your business isn't 24/7, you can often talk your boss into letting you work Christmas in order to get another day off some other time.
Some of my readers have told me about the following Christmas activities by Jews in their communities:

A community in Mexico City organized a group of Jews to cover for Christians who would otherwise have to work on Christmas. This was called "Project Brotherhood."
Jews in the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia areas go to Atlantic City, where the casinos never close, and the hotels are very inexpensive. The casinos are practically empty on Christmas, except for Jews, Indians and Asians.

HOW SAD!

**cl1953** · 09-03-2006, 02:32 PM

Growing up xmas was just a vacation and since we went skiing, what could be better.

If you don't ski then go to the movies and have chinese. Of course, I went and married a catholic so now we ski and get presents too. No religious meaning. Tends to muddle the joy of giving, don't ya think?

**fiddler** · 09-03-2006, 04:35 PM

Never had a christmas tree, never will. We sent our son to sunday school at the synagogue so he'd know who he was even though I'm not a religious Jew. Turns out he isn't either. One of the reasons for me to do this was so he wouldn't have to wonder why we didn't celebrate Christmas. Hannuka works for us. My non Jewish wife agreed to this because she wanted some kind of religious identity for him and I wouldn't have anything to do with any Christian religious anything. We do get her a Christmas present though so she sort of gets both.
Christmas day I try to find somewhere to ski (Baker is closed) or rent movies to watch all day. Radio and TV is out for the obvious reasons. I wouldn't mind working for someone that day but our bus system is closed.
On the bus I get bombarded with Christmas from before Thanksgiving. I get asked if I'm ready for it all the time and I usually tell them I'm not Christian and don't celebrate. I tell this to the same people year after year. I don't bring it up unless I'm asked though.
So here it is September 3 and the Christmas thing has already started, isn't it kind of early?

**summit** · 09-03-2006, 04:53 PM

We had a Christmas tree and stockings. w00t! double presents!

Xmas was a family reunion every year and I had one aunt who was the daughter of a preacher.

**TannerP** · 09-03-2006, 07:33 PM

i want to go to hawaii for christmas and ski one year thats what jews do during chirstmas according to robin williams in that crappy movie

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