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The apostates also wrote about Jews eating a lot of garlic on Christmas Eve to ward off the demon Jesus, as well as Jewish children being hesitant to use the latrine on Christmas Eve from the fear of Jesus reaching out and pulling them in. [4] The observance of Nittel Nacht was popularized by the Baal Shem Tov in the 18th century. [2]
In the liturgical calendar, the Nativity is followed by the Circumcision of Christ on January 1, which is mentioned only in passing in the Gospels, [3] and which is assumed to have taken place according to Jewish law and custom, and the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (or "Candlemas"), celebrated on February 2, and described by Luke. [4]
In Nazi Germany, Christmas celebrations were propagandized so as to serve the ideology of the Nazi party, including denial of the Jewish origin of Jesus. [9] The December 1957 News and Views published by the Church League of America, a conservative organization founded in 1937, [78] attacked the use of Xmas in an article titled "X=The Unknown ...
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The first night of Hannukah will not land on Christmas Day again until 2035 and then again in 2054. In 2016 and 1978, the first night of Hanukkah fell on Christmas Eve. That will happen again in 2027.
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Still, noted the New York Times, while tracing the rise of Hanukkah-themed commercialism, "More than 150 years ago, American Jews faced the opposite problem.Families settling in U.S. cities found ...
In the book A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Jewish, [7] author Rabbi Joshua Plaut, Ph.D., details the history of public displays of the hanukkiah across the United States, summarizes the court cases associated with this issue, and explains how Presidents of the United States came to embrace lighting the hanukkiah during Hanukkah.