11.22.2010

"Chrismukkah": Dumbing down the Christian holidays

Jewish-Christian families face December with secular spirit

Excerpts:

Ron Gompertz, who launched the "Chrismukkah" greeting cards years ago, mashing up Christmas and Hanukkah for Jewish-Christian families, once defended his idea to InterfaithFamily.com, a web site that stresses Jewish choices for inter-married families.

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were fully aware that strictly theologically speaking, Chrismukkah was nonsense.

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Take your favorite secular parts from Christmas and Hanukkah -- the food, the lights, the snowmen, the songs -- then mush them all together, being careful to leave the religious parts alone.

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