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Dec 27, 2006 22:32

My family is in a peculiar state with respect to the holidays ( Read more... )

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ruderal_species December 28 2006, 14:42:39 UTC
Wow. Your family sounds kind of like my family, only my family was just me and my mom and... We added Hannukah but never gave up Christmas. My year of meltdown came during the dawn of her pagan phase, when she declared that since Hannukah was originally a solstice celebration, we would not be celebrating it at the end of November that year like every other Jew in the world, but moving it to the 21st of December.

And don't get me started on when she put me in Jewish "sunday school"...

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ceteranna December 28 2006, 18:45:25 UTC
Oh, I was in Sunday school for small Jews too, until I turned thirteen. Most of my Jewish friends were. I think it's almost universal in Jewish youth education in the U.S., I don't know about elsewhere. (There was also Hebrew school on Monday and Wednesday evenings, right up through my bat mitzvah. Oy.)

Hahaha, for some reason I find your mother's executive transfer of Hannukah to coincide with the solstice hilarious. Erm ... although I appreciate that it must have been bewildering as a kid. Poor little Gen!

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ruderal_species December 29 2006, 02:31:19 UTC
Well, I started when I was like... 11? (I learned to read Hebrew when I was about 10, not that I remember now...) And other relatives had previously sent me to Christian Sunday School (no doubt in a vain attempt to save me from the Fires of Hell), and I really had no idea how to be Jewish. I called the Tanakh the "old testament" a few times. *flinches*

It's cool you had a Bat Mitzvah. I was in no sense prepared for that. :/

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fiddleteacher December 29 2006, 05:21:16 UTC
And Shakespeare after dinner, too? That was fun, I remember. Club Dahlia totally rocks!

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ceteranna December 29 2006, 23:07:42 UTC
Heehee, yes... although that tradition has faded as the children have gotten older and more conversible. The last several years, we've never gotten to the plays -- we were all too busy chatting. Neil Simon's Fools might be on for this year, though.

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