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Title: Why do former Soviets who are supposedly Jewish have Xmas trees?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on March 10, 2022, 12:51:16 PM

Why do former Soviets who are supposedly Jewish have Xmas trees or as they call them yolka? You would think living in Israel they would give that up!!!

Title: Re: Why do former Soviets who are supposedly Jewish have Xmas trees?
Post by: zeraisraelkahanist on March 10, 2022, 10:56:29 PM

It's not really a Xmas tree but it's actually for new years, for people not in the know Christmas was banned as was every other religious holiday so a member of the soviet government put New years as a public holiday and the people who were forced out of Christianity then put up a new years tree, if you ask me why Jews put them up I have no clue.