Comments on: The new Jews

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:54:42 +0000

I consider a public Xmas tre, the same idea as a public Menorah, or a public dinner to break the Ramadan fast. A public acknowledgement by a particular religion of something that is sacred to that religion and that religion alone. I would not be part of the celebration of another religion, but I would not regard it as something to be suppressed.

By: velvel of atlanta

velvel of atlanta — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:02:19 +0000

It is also fascinating when pretentious professors and their minions pretend intellectual prowess and have the gall to minimize by co-opting. I would not have the indecency to put up a Christmas tree and call it anything other than a Christmas tree…and would not put an eye of G-d on my forehead…and would not play with Ramadan. Who are these bums to tinker and minimize what is a part of me? {And in the case of the professor and the lawyer in the article, what did their forebears do to stop the Holocaust, Darfur, Armenia, or anything else?

By: segacs

segacs — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:10:04 +0000

As much as I understand the point here, comparisons to Nazism always make me wary, either because they trivialize Nazism or because their overuse trivializes the current horrors being perpetuated.