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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I am Jewish so it's my holiday too.
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As I responded to HarryT above.
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Could you imagine Jewish children not getting gifts while their friends who celebrate Christmas got gifts? That would never work.
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I don't need to
imagine it... it works just fine. For me and every other Jewish kid I've ever known -- though I will admit to mostly knowing chasidic/yeshivish/orthodox/modox types.
And my main point was and still is, that I don't think a statistically significant number of people want to give gifts for Chanukah and not for Christmas, such that Amazon should stage a product release to accommodate them.
- Jews are a minority.
- Frum Jews are an even smaller minority.
- There is no pervasive culture of gift-giving in this minority.
- In the event that someone celebrates both Chanukah and Christmas (as was said above), they won't buy the same thing twice.
It is a small enough target that Amazon won't bite, even without considering that no one else does so either.
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Besides, Christmas is not supposed to be about gifts but about celebrating Jesus. Look where that ended up.
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I never said Christmas wasn't secularized. I said I don't think Chanukah will be secularized in the same way.
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I'm not bothered. I'm not going to get into a I know my religion better than you do argument. It's childish and silly.
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Good. Neither am I.
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But I do think Hanukkah is overlooked. It's like all there is is Christmas in December.
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I keep on saying this: Chanukah is overlooked because it isn't statistically significant the way Christmas is.
(And maybe... because most frum Jews are happy to be overlooked since they don't care anyway?)