Growing up Jewish around a Christmas tree
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Rabbi Beth Nichols, assistant rabbi and director of education at Temple Israel of New Rochelle, has an interesting column in the new Jewish Week about growing up with a Jewish mother and Christian father.
She has fond memories of sitting around a Christmas tree on Christmas mornings past.
She writes about being a first-year rabbinical student in Israel and attending a forum on intermarriage on, of all days, Christmas Day:
Standing there, I did not know whether I could handle having classmates share their opinions about intermarriage on a day when I, a woman confident in her Jewish identity, wanted nothing more than to be sitting in my pajamas around a 12-foot tree covered in ornaments. Don’t worry, I see the issue: a Christmas tree symbolizes a theology to which I definitely do not subscribe. But wanting to be around that tree was about being a part of my family’s story.
Read the rest “here.”:http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=14551
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