Can American Jews Celebrate Christmas?
In case you haven’t noticed on my Instagram, I halve been going Christmas CRAZY! I have been decorating, DIY-ing, baking, eating, drinking, watching and listening to anything and EVERYTHING Christmas or holiday themed! I normally get really obsessive over things I like, but I have never been obsessed over Christmas like this. I noticed this year that EVERYONE seems to be more obsessed than usual – people were posting about Christmas before Halloween! – so I at least feel like I am in good company. However, it definitely begs the question: am I *allowed* to be this obsessed with Christmas, as a proud Jew? It is a question I have been thinking and talking about a lot the last few weeks, and while I don’t think there is any singular or correct answer, I thought I would share some of my musings and personal experience here! First of all, I…
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