Like a good New York Jew, how could I ever pass up the opportunity to scarf down some greasy Chinese food and watch fiddler on the roof for the umpteenth time in the midst of checking my Jdate email? 

However, the thought of Shacking Up with Anthony Bourdain is beyond reproach.  I for one will leave that to the more-than-capable boys of WeHo.

Though I must say, traveling the globe and unearthing local delicacies (no matter how bizzare) and projecting those flavors to the obese sitting in their double-wide has its virtues...last I checked they renewed the show for a reason....no?

My wife and I go out to a movie and then we go out to eat at a good Jewish Deli in Brookline.

This year we'll go to zaftigs, a great place to eat.

 

I admit it.  My adorable and wonderful and irreplaceable JDate boyfriend, without whom my life would sink into serious sewage, was raised in la casa de intermarriage.  That means that now, instead of Chinese and movies, I actually sit around a Christmas tree, opening presents.  And while I love the QT with the boy and his fam, I admit that part of me really misses the non-Christmases of yore.

Last year I went out to jog, and this year, I'll do it again. Ignoring pagan holidays is not difficult for me to do.

Unless the same Christmas music plays over the loudspeakers over and over. 

I too love ot jog on Christmas. There are no cars on the road and it is the quietest time of the year.

Otherwise, I can enjoy enjoy the season without myself getting involved in it. I love the light displays on some of the houses and a general mood of celebration.

 

You can't call yourself a Jew if you celebrate Christmas.  What a joke!  How does a phony Jew get on Jdate anyway?  Have their standards gone so low?  What a disgrace to our ancestors.

one would think the subject would have been exhausted by now...

Good to know I'm not the only bigot.  My wonderful, fabulous Jewish boyfriend also grew up in an interfaith home and we can't seem to stop fighting about Christmas.  I almost wish I was dating a Christian, because our Christmas conversation would consist of "Jews don't celebrate Christmas" and I could curl up with the Game Show Network's Family Feud marathon.  Instead, I have to decide to either do something that makes me feel really uncomfortable, or refuse to indulge their convenient emotional disconnect (having a tree and exchanging gifts isn't celebrating Christmas, or if it is, one can absolutely do so without be (a) Christian or (b) a materialist). It's a lose-lose for everyone. 

I was born Jewish, my husband converted.  Celebrating Christmas with his family is no threat to our nuclear family.  We're very involved in our congregation, have the extended family over every Shabbat, and our kids know who they are.  The threat is when you allow religion to divide you from your family.  If you want to stay with your boyfriend long term, you can't use your religion as a wedge between him and his parents.  If you know who you are, then you can manage a day with people who find meaning in things which you think are silly.  If you were Bat Mitzvahed, you probably invited kids who weren't Jewish.  And you might consider going to the baptism of a friend's child.  Your Bat Mitzvah was important, and this is important to people who may be grandparents to your children one day.  It's not your thing, but it's only lose-lose if you sit there in sullen judgement over the way they celebrate their holiday.

Maybe you could do what we do on Christmas Eve, which is to invite over a bunch of other Jewish families and eat lasagna and latkes.  L'Chaim.

They're Gentiles who call themselves Jewish because they think it's trendy. The fact that they don't see anything wrong with celebrating Christmas shows that they're not real Jews.

Your boyfriend is not Jewish if he celebrates Christmas and his mother is a shiksa.  You're dating a Gentile and probably a repressed Christian.  You need a real Jewish boyfriend because the one you have now is definately not a member of the tribe.

 Having pride in our traditions and refusing to celebrate Christian holidays doesn't make us bigots.  It makes us proud Jews.