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A Jew on Christmas

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

div xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlpDahlia Lithwick has a a href=http://www.slate.com/id/2206361/fun piece on Slate/a about which Christmas specials Jewish parents do and do not allow their children to watch./p pOur three-year-old does not like to watch TV all that much, so we have not had this particular problem. But she has been trying very hard lately to understand about this holiday that we do not celebrate but that so many other people (including two of her best friends) do celebrate. Her curiosity is further piqued because her Jewish preschool is across the street from a church with a Christmas tree lot and a giant inflatable Santa. She is not upset by this--no Why can't we have lights on our house or I want Santa to come to my house (at least not now--come see me when she is eight). But she has been asking a lot of questions. Of course, my wife and I both try to be sanguine about the fact that Jews are a minority in American society and, as such, are going to be surrounded by many of the majority's practices. So, at least for now, I do not feel as if we are struggling too much with how to explain it all to our daughter./p pFinally, just because it's fun and I agree with Dahlia that this is the best Jewish song of the season:/p pobject width=425 height=344param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/nYNA_dFXYqchl=enfs=1/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowscriptaccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/nYNA_dFXYqchl=enfs=1 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccess=always allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object/p/div

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