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Title: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on May 22, 2019, 08:13:11 AM: What kind of Jew puts a Xmas tree in their home?
My family also came from the FSU & they all made sure that their sons had a bris,kept kosher& Jewish holy days & the idea of an Xmas tree was repulsive & repugnant to them.
They were Yiddish speaking Jews who were either religious or traditional.
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: Hrvatski Noahid on May 22, 2019, 10:25:48 PM: Asherot are forbidden for Gentiles. They are certainly forbidden for Jews.

How much mutual intelligibility is there between Yiddish and German, in your opinion?
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on May 22, 2019, 10:51:44 PM: Quote from: Hrvatski Noahid on May 22, 2019, 10:25:48 PM
Asherot are forbidden for Gentiles. They are certainly forbidden for Jews.

How much mutual intelligibility is there between Yiddish and German, in your opinion?
Asherot is Easter I believe & Xmas is the Saturnalias/Winter Solstice.
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: Hrvatski Noahid on May 22, 2019, 11:23:39 PM: Quote from: ChabadKahanist on May 22, 2019, 10:51:44 PM
Asherot is Easter I believe & Xmas is the Saturnalias/Winter Solstice.

I meant the trees used for idolatry (an asherah). I never heard of Easter trees.
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on May 23, 2019, 05:40:32 AM: Quote from: Hrvatski Noahid on May 22, 2019, 11:23:39 PM
I meant the trees used for idolatry (an asherah). I never heard of Easter trees.
Easter is for the pagan goddess Ashtart
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on May 23, 2019, 05:41:14 AM: Quote from: Hrvatski Noahid on May 22, 2019, 10:25:48 PM
Asherot are forbidden for Gentiles. They are certainly forbidden for Jews.

How much mutual intelligibility is there between Yiddish and German, in your opinion?

A lot
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: Binyamin Yisrael on May 23, 2019, 09:57:33 AM: Quote from: ChabadKahanist on May 23, 2019, 05:40:32 AM
Easter is for the pagan goddess Ashtart

Ishtar. I know the gay Easter Bunny has to do with pagan Spring fertility rites. Did that involve Ashera trees?
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: Joe Gutfeld on May 23, 2019, 03:42:08 PM: What's up with Irving Berlin celebrating Christmas and Easter? He was a jew.
Title: Re: What's up with Russian "Jews" & Xmas trees?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on May 23, 2019, 11:53:09 PM: Quote from: Joe Gutfeld on May 23, 2019, 03:42:08 PM
What's up with Irving Berlin celebrating Christmas and Easter? He was a jew.
Who said he did & only just wrote a song?
But in Israel to do so why?