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Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.
Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
Christmas is a kindling of new fires.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
Wisdom of the Ages: "The Nativity" The Son of God was born in a manger-not surprising, have you seen the prices of hotel rooms in Bethlehem? Oy Vay! Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah Peace!
Thanksgiving turkey in the world.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
Light yourself a candle bright.
I'll you, if you will me invite
To dance within that gentle light.
Christmas is love.
Bright Blessings for this Winter Solstice,
I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.
The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
I may plan to make Christ the center of Christmas, but when I wait until December to focus on celebrating His birthday, I become entangled in Christmas lights, holiday baking, and festive engagements, often wondering if I've experienced the illusive "true meaning" of Christmas.
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.
Peace be with you,
when lights dance to the sound of Christmas bells -
and the whole world breathe in silence.
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
For all of life is Christmas, an eternal gift from God.
Holidays - Have no pity.
Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.
Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.
Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
Christmas is Christ love for mankind.
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.
Hanukah is over, we're not Jewish anymore," she tells me.
Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night
Bright New Year for a blessed beginning.
Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.
In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.
Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July
New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!
It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.
Christmas is a celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together as sacred family.
Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.
Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.
after Thanks giving day
Jeff- "A Hanukkah tradition is making potato pancakes. For something a little different, use a sweet potato. Anything you'd like to add, Walter?"
Walter- "Accept Jesus as your Savior or you'll burn in Hell for all eternity.
In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
May the sacredness of Christmas gladden your heart.
I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.
Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers ... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.
Christmas is a blanket that warms our cold hearts.
I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas.
Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind's grandiose sense of greatness.
Now the New Year reviving old Desires.
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
Christmas is the alcoholidays
The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.... It is a wish that every cup may overflow with blessings and that every path may lead to peace.
Christmas united us as holy beings. We experience love, joy and peace.
It was the night before Christmas.
I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete.
As an atheist hates Christmas, I hate the fourth of July.
Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it.
Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.
Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious!
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
The greatest gifts of a New Year; it brings a new beginning, new blessings and new bliss.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Christmas; you are my shining star in the days of tender growing solicitude.
The Heart of Christmas is you.
Christmas is the spirit of love, joy and peace.
I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.
Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B
Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.
What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.
Celebrating a festival called life.
Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.
Happy Day After Christmas, Merry Rest of the Year, even when Christmas is over, The Light of the World is Still Here!
My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish.
Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.
the 'Happy Birthday
In case anyone would like to know, we have now entered the Christmas season. Christmas as in Jesus Christ. This is not the "happy holidays" season ... Don't "Happy Holidays" me because I will "Merry Christmas" you in return.
Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
This bright new year is given me
We joyfully pray with grateful heart to welcome blessings in New Year.
Christmas is a response to bring mankind back, to restore some original intent that could never be even remotely restored by any effort of mankind regardless of how grand or majestic any such effort might be.
Let the essence of Christmas blossom within - as the countdown to Christmas begins.