Re: OT religious content re anger over "holidays" vs. "Christmas"

I am celebrating Christmas not holidays I don't care what Jews did .
I still have the right to spend my money where I get a Merry Christmas
not a PC happy holidays. I shop in local stores for my gifts where I
know the owners and they know me ( ha ha walmart). One is even Jewish.
I expect my holiday to be respected by the merchants who need it to
exist ( over 40% of a years business is done from Thanksgiving to
January 1). we Christians are a majority and if we insist on a Merry
Christmas it will happen



On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:22:45 -0600, Janet Wilder
<kelliepoodle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Vito wrote:
>
>> "Janet Wilder" <kelliepoodle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>>>There were many Sephardic Jews who came here well before the Revolution.
>>>They came to the British New World Colonies where there was more
>>>tolerance thanks to Cromwell. Active Jewish Communities were in many of
>>>the 13 original colonies.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and started a trend that didn't exist elsewhere. Being a small percent
>> of the population they integrated themselves into local society instead of
>> living seperately like euro Jews. They became Americans who happened to be
>> Jewish instead of Jews who happened to live here. Thus most are respected
>> members of our communities avoiding the pogroms common in Europe.
>>
>>
>Correct. Because in the New World, there were no laws that made them
>live in Ghettos. There were no laws, like in most of Europe and European
>territories that forbade them from owning land or regulated their
>business practices in ways that "other" merchants were not. It's not
>like they chose to live apart in Europe. In most cases that's where the
>government put them.
>
>J

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