Being a Jewish mom at Christmas isn't so bad

:wave:Jillio

me?
if so :ty:!

Hanukkah blessings to you and any for whom it applies!

:)
 
kokonut said:
Funny, I went out with a woman who also lived in Tel Aviv and was also a Canadian citizen while going to Gallaudet. Met her parents in Canada during one of our trips during our college break to see the sights of the Northeast up to Quebec. I learned from her like Purim and other Jewish celebrations. We maintained our even contact during the summer break while I was a summer camp counselor at a Jewish summer camp in Maryland. We're still great friends.
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What year was it? I know quite a few Israelis. And Palestinians, and Saudis, and Iranians, etc. etc.

I used to teach English as a Foreign Language to International Deaf students.
 
jillio said:
That is really a good solution. Give the kids that are not celebrating Christmas an excused absence for that part of the day.
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The kids can be very racist in my city. My daughter had a horrible time at school when we moved here from Berkley Cali. My daughter is biracial , her father was Black. Some kids would be very hostile to a kid that they felt was the blame for not having a Christmas party at school. I am so glad my daughter is a grown woman and not in school anymore. She would had been bullied for being Jewish and Black is she was child . I would not had want my child to be the reason the school did not have a Christmas party. I think the school is doing more harm by not having a Christmas party. They could had made it a multicultural party , that would had been fun for the kids and they would had learn more about other cultural and customs.
 
Mods ... Christmas is a Federal Holiday celebrated on December 25th as defined by United States Code section 6103. Although Christmas is observed by Christians to be the celebration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, many of the aspects of Christmas are also.secular. Hannukah is strictly a religious holiday with no secular attributes. Maybe this thread should be moved to religion and spirituality forum?
 
Steinhauer said:
Mods ... Christmas is a Federal Holiday celebrated on December 25th. Hannukah is a religious holiday. Maybe this thread should be moved to religion and spirituality forum?
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Oh boy, just what we need; another reported post to the staff.

For the record, I have never reported a post that wasn't blatant spam or scam. Let the people speak. It is just opinions.
 
saywhatkid said:
Oh boy, just what we need; another reported post to the staff.

For the record, I have never reported a post that wasn't blatant spam or scam. Let the people speak. It is just opinions.
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It wasn't a reported post attempting to get anyone in trouble ... Just a suggestion that it should be moved to the proper discussion forum.
 
Steinhauer said:
It wasn't a reported post attempting to get anyone in trouble ... Just a suggestion that it should be moved to the proper discussion forum.
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Moving this thread to the other forum would mean automatically locking it.
 
Reba said:
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The frozen tundra of "Religious threads" soon to include politics. I sure wish we could have kept things a bit more civilized here. Sometimes it feels like a public stoning when you disagree with the majority.
 
saywhatkid said:
The frozen tundra of "Religious threads" soon to include politics. I sure wish we could have kept things a bit more civilized here. Sometimes it feels like a public stoning when you disagree with the majority.
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This thread was very civilized. I just thought it did not belong in "current events" but rather in the religious discussion forum. I don't want this thread getting locked as a lot of learning is going on. I was not aware that moving a thread meant it got locked. So .... Never mind.
 
Being a Buddhist at Christmas isn't so bad either :wave:
 
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