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Arutz Shevas Tzvi Fishman gives Xmas hell!

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Serbian Canadian:
I don't like how he bashes Christmas, though I agree with the message he tries to convey.

Serbs celebrate Christmas on January 7th. I see a lot of Serbian families in the diaspora who buy Christmas trees, put up stockings, pretend there's a Santa Claus, ect.. which has nothing to do with the Serbian/Christian Orthodox Christmas tradition. The Catholic/Protestant Christmas tradition has been so popularized and commercialized that people of different faiths and cultures try to copy or emulate it. 

Stay with your tradition and culture.

Lisa:
I notice at around this time of the year how assimilated, non-observant Jews try and make a whole big deal out of Chanukah, like it's our top holiday, which it isn't.  This usually involves them giving each other presents. 

Now I have no problem with people celebrating Chanukah.  By all means, light up those candles and make potato pancakes and donuts.  But don't try and make it into something it isn't.  It's usually these same assimilated liberal Jewish people who act all surprised when I tell them I don't give or receive any Chanukah presents.  When well meaning non-Jews ask me about what I'm doing for Channukah, I'll tell them I light candles and that's all.  Of course they're surprised since they assume it's a major holiday of ours.  So I then have to explain how our big holidays are Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succot and Passover. 

muman613:

--- Quote from: Lisa on December 22, 2009, 09:14:27 PM ---I notice at around this time of the year how assimilated, non-observant Jews try and make a whole big deal out of Chanukah, like it's our top holiday, which it isn't.  This usually involves them giving each other presents. 

Now I have no problem with people celebrating Chanukah.  By all means, light up those candles and make potato pancakes and donuts.  But don't try and make it into something it isn't.  It's usually these same assimilated liberal Jewish people who act all surprised when I tell them I don't give or receive any Chanukah presents.  When well meaning non-Jews ask me about what I'm doing for Channukah, I'll tell them I light candles and that's all.  Of course they're surprised since they assume it's a major holiday of ours.  So I then have to explain how our big holidays are Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succot and Passover. 

--- End quote ---

And what is really sick are those Jews who bring Chanukah bushes into the house and decorate the house with Chanukah lights {ala Xmas lights}. What terrible damage is done to Jewish Children when they observe such craziness and obvious violation of the Jewish law. These assimilated Jews will no longer be Jewish within a generation because without Jewish tradition and Jewish faith, there is no Jewish people.

It is so sad to see people celebrate Chanukah as if it were the Jewish Xmas. The true meaning of the Holiday of Chanukah is the fight which the Maccabees took up in order to preserve the Jewish heritage. Why do Jews in America so willingly worship at the altar of commercialism and mimicing the avodah zarah of the nations? They obviously have no idea what it means to be Jewish....

Lisa:
I agree Muman.

AsheDina:
I dont even celebrate ANYTHING.  Sad, huh?

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