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| Re: Thanksgiving |
Author: Ronnie Friedland, editor
Date: 03-28-02 12:15
True or false: Thanksgiving is a time when my family and my spouse's family enjoy getting together. Discuss |
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| Re: Thanksgiving |
Author: sara
Date: 07-07-03 21:32
My parents are intermarried. My father grew up Greel Orthodx Christian, but was an agnostic by the time he met my mother, who was raised very liberal mostly non-religious Refrom Jewish. I'm a Karaite (Saducee) dating a Muslim.
For me, growing up, Thanksgiving was always the big family holiday. Christmas and Passover were there too, but they were smaller affairs. By making Thanksgiving (a non-denominational (I almost said non religious, but rethought it)) our big family time, my parents avoided most of the family holday issues. We'd go to my father's family Christmas afternoon (after the rest came back form church) and we'd celebrate Chanukkah as a small affair at home, really all we did was light the candles at dinner. We'd see my mother's family for seder, and we'd do a tiny Easter thing (dye and hunt for eggs; eat candy)
As my brother an I got older, we sort of invented our own holiday things, and my parents were always happy to oblige. We'd dye matzoh (it's actually much more fun than eggs; becasue they're flat, they're easier to paint pictures on. Also, they keep forever) We sing songs completely unrelated to wither holdiay, and we'd make up our own. When we were teenagers, and going thru our communist phase, we'd decorate a comercialism tree with pictures cut from catalogs and sing advertisment jingles to celebrate the true meaning of the season. :) I think that made my father unhappy, but he was a trooper. And, truthfully, I think it made him a lot happier than not doing anything would have.
Now that I'm an adult, we celebrate an incredible holday in december, in addition to whatever else we do (for me, that's a full fledged Chanukah, for my parents it's xmas with his family...) We call it DOUG. On Doug, we eat rich foods, and listen to music, and drink eggnog and exhange presents and revel and make kerry as much as we can. DOUG stands, vyt the way, for Day Of Unmitigated Greed. Not a name I'd encourage you to use with children, but, it's lovely for grown-ups who can put it in context. My aunt (who is intermarried with a young daughter) no celebrates Chanamus. I'm not sure exactly what that entails.
I'm sort of rambling, so I'll summarize: I often don't go home (it's a long trip) for Chanamus or Passter, but I can't imagine Thanksgiving away from home.
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The unleavened bread eaten during Passover.
The spring holiday commemorating the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
"Order" in Hebrew. Refers to the traditional course of events, or service, surrounding the Passover and Tu B'Shevat meals.
Chanukah is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd Century BCE. It is marked by the lighting of a menorah.
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