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Web Magazine Issue 198 - Approaches to Christmas

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Web Magazine

Approaches to Christmas

Issue 198: December 19, 2006

FEATURED ARTICLES

The Spouse Who Stole Christmas

By Sue Eisenfeld

Her non-Jewish husband decided not to do Christmas, but now she misses it.

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Bringing Christmas Back

By Gina Hagler

If you convert, can you still have a tree?

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Don't Bring Christmas Back

By Dawn C. Kepler

An outreach professional responds to Bringing Christmas Back.

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Learning to Let Go of Christmas

By Alice Hale

Now that she's converted, she's ready to stop celebrating Christmas. But her kids aren't.

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

More Articles on Approaches to Christmas

What Will We Do About Christmas? (After the Grandparents Are Gone)
By Suzanne Koven

Hanukkah at home, Christmas at the in-laws. But what happens when the in-laws die?

Planning "Far Enough"
By Rosanne Levitt

An outreach professional responds to What Will We Do About Christmas? (After the Grandparents Are Gone).

The Greatest Game: Playing Dreidel in Iowa
By Susan Freudenheim

A self-avowed East Coast liberal introduces her husband's devout Catholic family to gelt and latkes.

"In the Mix": (Out of the) Home for Christmas
By Julie Wiener

A Jewish woman struggles to keep Christmas at arm's length from her interfaith family.

News

Survey: Interfaith Families Raising Jewish Kids Can Negotiate Christmas
By Sue Fishkoff

Our December holidays survey shows you can have your tree and be Jewish, too.

Arts and Entertainment

Interfaith Celebrities: Is Harry Potter Half-Jewish?
By Nate Bloom

Daniel Radcliffe's "mum" was Jewish, he tells an Australian interviewer. Plus, Jack Black's Hanukkah plans and the latest on Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson.

For Your Consideration Deserves None: One Interfaith Couple's Response
By Helene and John Dunbar

Christopher Guest's new comedy gets stuck in shtick.

The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs
By Nate Bloom

Of the 25 most popular holiday songs of all time, more than half were written by Jews.

It's Chrismukkah Time... Again
By Cheryl Coon

Oy. The hybrid holiday is back.

Chocolate money customarily given on Hanukkah. Potato pancakes traditionally eaten during Hanukkah. Hanukkah 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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