Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!naiman From: naiman@pegasus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: How do you deal with Jewish Holidays and WORK? Message-ID: <1016@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 09:47:16 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.1016 Posted: Thu Mar 1 09:47:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 14:35:11 EST References: <963@pegasus.UUCP> <202@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 17 > Yes, friends, Chanuka is a minor holiday, it's not as important as the > five above it. The fact that it is coincident with Christmas is > coincidence. Chanuka is NOT Jewish Christmas, and giving presents, > other than the normal modest Chanuka trappings, is ridiculous, and > only serves to confuse children and dilute Judaism. =============================================================== Someone once told me that Jesus was born on the first day of Chanukah, the 25th day of Kislev; and the Christians observe Christmas on the same day, twenty-five, of the approximately equivalent month in the solar calendar, December. Anyone know if this is true? -- ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259 Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, ...]!pegasus!naiman