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What Hanukkah is About
22 Nov 2018 06:48 pmLike many children of mixed Jewish+Christian backgrounds, I was raised celebrating both Hanukka and Christmas.
So I wasn't left out of the omnipresent Christmas miasma that covers the US after Halloween, or of the zillion Christmas parties and celebrations that people thoughtlessly assume apply to everyone; but still, it was enough to make that thoughtlessness annoying.
And having been brought up agnostically humanist as well, I'm very sympathetic - in the instantaneous emotional “Haha, YEAH” feeling - to the Tumblr post that I saw screenshotted on Twitter yesterday:
image transcript below (1)
( Some historical context speaking to why this summary is a rather suspiciously one-sided oversimplification )
So I wasn't left out of the omnipresent Christmas miasma that covers the US after Halloween, or of the zillion Christmas parties and celebrations that people thoughtlessly assume apply to everyone; but still, it was enough to make that thoughtlessness annoying.
And having been brought up agnostically humanist as well, I'm very sympathetic - in the instantaneous emotional “Haha, YEAH” feeling - to the Tumblr post that I saw screenshotted on Twitter yesterday:
image transcript below (1)
( Some historical context speaking to why this summary is a rather suspiciously one-sided oversimplification )
