One ironic fact (to me, at least) is how well our Jewish friends are represented on the airwaves, at malls and at parties at Christmas.
Just take a look at the holiday songs written by Jews:
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- Santa Baby
- Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Silver Bells
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- Sleigh Ride
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- White Christmas
Why is this? Why have Jews been able to describe the emotions and sentiments of a day and season that commemorates the birth of Christ? Granted, most of these are most assuredly on the lighter side and nonsecular, but still….
Comedian Ben Stein had an interesting take:
"I have always felt that no one loved Christmas like the Jews," said Stein. "No family tensions, no disappointments about the wrong gift, just that great Christmas spirit. For a Jew to be in America at Christmas, with all the love in the air, after two millennia of being hunted and killed at Christian holidays, is pure bliss…”
I have to give these songwriters a lot of credit. Instead of dwelling on feeling left out and/or persecuted, they decided to join the fun and create a little magic of their own bar none.
Oh, and one other thing, Phil Spector, jailbird, creator of "little symphones for the kids" and Jew, is responsible for the greatest Christmas album of all time -- bar none.
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