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Let Ricochet’s Jewish Christmas Begin!
It’s that time of the year! The day when every mission-critical job–including Ricochet editor–is done by religious minorities. As many of you know, we have a longstanding tradition of celebrating Jewish Christmas on Ricochet.
Mollie tried, in 2012, bless her heart, but what does she know from Jewish Christmas?
Fortunately, Judith was here in 2013 to take over the solemn responsibilities …
And I came back again in 2015 …
So, as our long tradition demands, I shall be here all day, Ricochet, holding down the fort, ordering Chinese take-out, and complaining that there’s not much to do — oh, and wishing everyone a “Happy Holidays” like it’s still the Obama Administration.
In fact, there’s nothing to do. Christmas is stretching out ahead of me as a solid 24 hours of total boredom, folks. So if anyone else is celebrating Jewish Christmas with me, let’s have some fun. Shall we read some Lincoln together and argue about our favorite Civil War generals?
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…and to you and yours, Stew!
This puts me in mind of an old joke which I will now successfully mangle:
A Chinese scholar and a Jewish scholar are having a friendly discussion about their cultures.The Chinese scholar tells the Jewish scholar that the Chinese have a cultural tradition going back three thousand years that has contributed much to the advancement of human civilization. The Jewish scholar listens appreciatively and notes that Jewish culture has contributed much to human civilization as well, and goes back five thousand years. “That’s impossible!” replies the Chinese scholar, who , to prove his point, then asks “What did your people eat for two thousand years?”
Claire,
In honor of your Jewish Christmas post, I have composed a short work of fiction on a subject that you yourself suggested.
THE GETTYSBURG CONSPIRACY
Regards,
Jim
Just found this on Instapundit. If its hard to read it says: “The Chinese Rest. Assoc. of the United States would like to extend our thanks to The Jewish People [.] [W]e do not completely understand your dietary customs…But we are proud and grateful that your GOD insist you eat our food on Christmas [.] Happy Holidays”
Claire and all,
For Hannukah, we had an extra special little present. Our new “Teen Rabbi” came on board last year to handle all of the youth programs. He grew up in Marin County just north of San Francisco. His father started one of the first Chabad houses in northern California. Through the unknown but powerful force of Beshert, he met Clara. She was from Johannesburg, South Africa. One thing led to another and they were married. Now, the first result of this marriage was timed so that the briss was on Hannukah.
Regards,
Jim
Merry Christmas to all.
I ran into an old co-worker/friend who just got back from Romania where’s he’s from – he said the food was amazing? So what’s so special about Romanian food? Any special holiday dishes or desserts? We were in Dollar General – I needed laundry detergent and he needed bug spray so I didn’t get into it….Merry Christmas!
I thought for sure that Claire’s new book would be in my Christmas stocking this morning – but no luck – bummer – in my sleepy state I grabbed my cat’s stocking by mistake and unwrapped her gift – a catnip stuffed prawn (shrimp) and she unwrapped mine – 2 silver bracelets – we swapped. Merry Christmas!
Mazel tov! Mazel tov!
How similar is French Chinese food to American Chinese food which differs from actual Chinese food?
There has to be a good French joke involving mis-spelling “Chine” as “chien” with the punchline: “No, that’s Korean.”
One more thing about Chinese food on Christmas. What if all the local Chinese places are closed on Christmas? When we went to the movie yesterday, I made a special effort to check out the local places, and they were all closed.
Truck stops.
True story: When I was growing up in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. , there were plenty of Chinese restaurants open on Christmas. However, my father was told by at least one Chinese restaurant owner that they closed on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur due to lack of customers.