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It's Hard To Be A Jew On Christmas

Tomorrow's Christmas, or, as I knew it throughout my childhood, that day when I'm bored and nothing is open. I'm 100% Heeb, and my mother was so anti-Christmas that we didn't even do the stereotypical Jew things like eat Chinese food and go to the movies. Doing those things would be a tacit acknowledgment that Christmas existed, and my mom wasn't about to kowtow to the status quo. I've elided all my severe Christmas envy into one mental image: me, at eight, pressing my hooked nose against the window panes of our Christian neighbors' houses as they embraced around the tree, tearing the wrapping paper off their brand new Nintendos in some sweater-clad, ritualized, yuletide orgy. More »

1:30 PM on Mon Dec 24 2007
By Jessica
6,058 views, 78 comments

Latest by TastyBites: @ceejeemcbeegee: Were you at my family Christmas? No? Hmm. They sound similar. If I had any good spirits to send to you, I would. Have a happy New Year!@ href="#c3451617">raoul_j_raoul: Correct. Even though I'm still religious to an extent, this is more »