The Five Best Christmas Books for Jewish Kids
For young un-Orthodox (in terms of denomination, not podcast-fandom) folk, Christmas can be a bummer. As a wee Jewess I was super-envious of the kids who got to sit on Santa’s lap at the mall; I felt left out when Christmas music filled every public space; I wanted to see blue and white sparkly lights mixed with the red and green ones.
We can’t help what we feel. Today, rather than wishing for more public acknowledgment of Hanukkah, I’d prefer less public celebration of Christmas — what with us purportedly living in a secular democracy and having this whole separation-of-church-and-state business and all. But it’s hard to explain that to a kid who feels like South Park’s Kyle Broflovski: “I’m a Jew, a lonely Jew, on Christmas.”
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