Pff, everyone knows Jewish people don't actually care about Hanukkah! You just trumped it up because it coincides with Christmas and Christian folk seemed to be having lots of fun and YOU FELT LEFT OUT.
Pff, everyone knows Jewish people don't actually care about Hanukkah! You just trumped it up because it coincides with Christmas and Christian folk seemed to be having lots of fun and YOU FELT LEFT OUT.
You sound suspiciously like my Jewish AP Government Teacher.
Anyway, I'm off to stop a terrorist attack at a skyscraper. No time to get my shoes.
Pff, everyone knows Jewish people don't actually care about Hanukkah! You just trumped it up because it coincides with Christmas and Christian folk seemed to be having lots of fun and YOU FELT LEFT OUT.
Of course Christmas got started the same way, because the then "cultists" were jealous of all the fun the pagan Romans were having at winter Saturnalia feasts.
Pff, everyone knows Jewish people don't actually care about Hanukkah! You just trumped it up because it coincides with Christmas and Christian folk seemed to be having lots of fun and YOU FELT LEFT OUT.
I think it was more of a post WWII thing, if I remember correctly. A way to blend in better with the Christians so they wouldn't appear so different and have a recurrence of the Holocaust. Same thing with the reformation movement, I think.
My family doesn't exchange gifts for hanukkah, actually. I send stuff to my christian friends and get from them, but we don't exchange gifts in my family.
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Season. The season. Not session. And why just 2010? Why can't 2012 be better than 2011? You must be tired.
I was watching Batman Mask of the Phantasm so this post had like less then 1% of my interest.
I'm off work for two days, so yay! Very merry me-mas eve!
You sound suspiciously like my Jewish AP Government Teacher.
Anyway, I'm off to stop a terrorist attack at a skyscraper. No time to get my shoes.
Merry f**king Christmas!
It used to be a kinda funny joke but then it took
Merry Christmas/Eve, people.
In other news, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice, Merry Kwaanza, Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
I think it was more of a post WWII thing, if I remember correctly. A way to blend in better with the Christians so they wouldn't appear so different and have a recurrence of the Holocaust. Same thing with the reformation movement, I think.