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iTke appeal of Mrs. Isaac Borm. of Indianapolis, a. member o* the^National Fe4eratiqn of Temple Sisterhoods, to Sisterhood members not to send Christmas greetings, even to non-Jews, is too arresting an example of wasted energy to escape ivithout some comment.
Most Jews, particularly those in the States, and particularly those of the Sisterhood-member type have Gentile friends or at least acquaintances who wish them "A Happy New Year" on Rosh Hashonah, and to whom they say "Merry Christinas" by card or word of mouth. This shows them to be human beings first and JewsJ or Qentiles afterwardb, a happy circumstance. Christmas in other countries, where rivers of Jewish blood have soaked the snow, shows some Gentiles to be anything but human, but in America, Christmas Day can mean nothing worse in its effect than a period, all too brief, of genuine, comprehensive good-will, infectious enough to filter from Gentile to Jew and this we cannot condemn.
When Mrs. Born asks that Sisterhood members refrain from sending each other Christmas cards she is casting such sad aspersion upon the Sisterhood colony as to bring into public question its good taste and horse sense. These are avowedly aids to the temples of which they are the Sisterhood, pledged to work for such enterprises as the celebration of Chanukah in opposition to the celebration of Christmas and as such one may be excused for assuming that Christmas can mean nothing to them in a religious way.
If some Sisterhood members of Mrs. Born's acquaintance do send Christmas cards to each other it is charitable to suppose that, they regard the holiday as one which is increasingly becoming a general one of gift-giving and good cheer. If so that opens up a phase of the
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country.altiiougfc ^^e^y ;%r^lutely, we bel&ve element* which are Christianas rUpon Jewish life as any environment would and doesv We privileg^ of discussinjg the merit or dejme*i� �f aiy sqrt observance by Jews, contenting ourselves with thesimple that the celebration of Christmas aided by trees, tinsel is becoming an established custom among :Jew�i even who woulfinever countfcnancelii^e^^ for example,
upheld In this statement by the existe&ce of many Ch*i$t-in Jewish homes, even in. as geaetafly oj*rK>dox a �an-:a* Toronto, even among people who obfle^e^ Chanokfo, tpo, 3eel that they may as *rell have s�netC3iruto rtheir children have it at a time wfu^tne Gentile kids next it up. " � . . ' V.''
etil^stantiates the true nature of thefiftuation mote than *s appeal and the similar urgent pleas of Jewish leaders /every year with increasmi: veiemence against the workfijgs ix^fora of the country. . :
t the farther west one goes in Canada the njote liberal ia.the olf Christians toward Jews is ev^eniced btf theiact that Rabbi
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