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Vaguely related and good for a laugh: Christmas Time for the Jews: http://youtube.com/watch?v=M3a3_nFRTfE

On the other hand, maybe it’s nice to teach children that holidays can be done à la carte. Every religion, every culture has so many beautiful rituals and traditions to choose from. Maybe celebrating is a step toward tolerating. I can hardly wait for Hanukkwanzaa. Quote from sex and city writer in that article.

My gyst is good for them. And its not like thats anything new.
I'm sure their are millions of families bored with their faiths doing the same around the world. BFD. I'm going to smoke some PAYOTE and praise the Great Spirit with a snow dance because I like my christmas winterwonderland and I met the Bhudda on the road. My Tiki Man statue in the entertainment room looks nice with all the christmas lights around it. Happy Holidays strangers whatever day it is.
Now for some Reggae Christmas songs from limewire.....

Then again, my dad was a man who, in his wood-paneled wet bar, had highball glasses featuring busty women whose clothes disappeared when the glass was full.

Purchased with the money saved by not buying ham at half price.

It's a cute article and pretty lite.

There is no expectation that she needs to celebrate Christmas in any serious way so she can just lay back and have fun with it. It won't make her less Jewish.

If I were the King of the World/
tell you what I'd do.
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war/
and make sweet love to you.

sing it now. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea.

Joy to you and me!

For those who haven’t seen it, Sex and the City tells the story of four thirty-something single women living in New York City. They live a life that, while all too common today, is perhaps unprecedented in human history (especially for women). They are completely deracinated and homogenized, having no discernable family, either nuclear or extended. They have no religious convictions. Their life consists mostly of wandering around Manhattan, eating in chic restaurants, maxing-out their credit cards in fashionable boutiques, and engaging in a bewildering variety of casual sexual relationships.

... In essence, their lives are more akin to that of animals than to anything that could be called genuinely human. They live lives dominated by impulses and sensations rather than by the intellect or the spirit, lives of indulgence rather than of purpose. They reside in the “eternal present,” without regard for the future and without reverence for the past. Even more disturbingly, their lifestyle has a spooky passivity to it, a sense of slavery to their vices. If someone takes them to a swanky Thai restaurant, they’ll eat. If someone hands them a martini, they’ll drink. If a handsome guy appears, they’ll copulate.

That is, in a nutshell, the sum total of their existence. Their post-modernism really isn’t a culture, but an anti-culture. It’s what people do in the absence of authentic culture...it is a downward spiral into the abyss. These women are, admittedly, an extreme example. But the beauty of art lies in its ability to harness archetypes for the purpose of making social and political commentary.

They reside in the “eternal present,” without regard for the future and without reverence for the past. Even more disturbingly, their lifestyle has a spooky passivity to it, a sense of slavery to their vices.

I've never seen this show, but your description makes it sound like essential viewing. Thanks.

Did anyone else watch a whole week of AMC on soap net today? They were talking all about Jesus dying for our sins, they even had a priest as St. Nick.

I'm not sure which is more scary the freaky religiousness of soap operas during Christmas time or non-Christians "celebrating" the material aspect of the holiday.

If this is what Pottery Barn does to Jews, imagine the peace and stability we could finally bring to Iraq if we carpet-bombed them with the Crate & Barrel "Early Spring" catalog. After all, ethnic strife is no match for pastel deck umbrellas and beach towels in a variety of kicky colors (monogram extra)

sex and the shitty, I guess you are the judge of what is culture and what is anti-culture? it's all culture. duh. like your life has SO much more meaning.

In fact, I recall that he was extremely judgmental of one Jewish family in the place I grew up (Tulsa), who did have a Christmas tree every year. Even though it was decorated exclusively with blue ornaments and silver bows, my dad made it clear to my sister and me that he thought the whole Jews-with-trees movement was in very poor taste.

OMG, I know that family growin g up. We always knew them as the "Jews with the Christmas tree."