What is the position of the jewish faith on christmas? Do they celebrate it in the same way as the other christian faiths?
2006-12-12 04:00:58 · 22 answers · asked by axely1 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Chanukah or The Festival of Lights (The Festival of Rededication) is a minor Jewish holiday that takes place over eight days starting from late November to early January. It is celebrated on eight nights by lighting a row of candles called a Menorah at sundown.
Families often gather together and exchange gifts, play traditional Jewish games, and eat special Jewish/Hebrew/Yiddish foods like Latke and deep fried pastries.
Other Jewish Holidays include:
Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year
Tzom Gedaliah - Fast of Gedaliah
Aseret Yemei Teshuva – Ten Days of Repentance
Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement
Sukkot – Festival of Booths
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
Tenth of Tevet
Tu Bishvat – New year of the trees
Pesach – Passover
Sefirah – Counting of the Omer
Lag Ba'omer
New Israeli/Jewish national holidays
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance day
Yom Hazikaron – Memorial Day
Yom Ha'atzma'ut – Israel Independence Day
Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day
Shavuot – Pentecost
Seventeenth of Tammuz
The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
Tisha B'av – Ninth of Av
Tithe of animals
Rosh Chodesh – the New Month
Shabbat – The Sabbath
2006-12-12 04:02:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christian faith at Hannekah? What is the position of of chrisitan faith on on Hannekah? Do they celebrate the same as other jewish peope?
Get the picture...open your mind a bit...not everyone in the world is Christian
2006-12-12 04:04:40 · answer #2 · answered by Greanwitch 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the whole holiday is kind of silly, to be honest. People start buying gifts at Thanksgiving, and playing xmas music at Halloween. Kids go sit on the lap of a red-suited man and ask him for gifts. A little random. Gift giving at Hanukkah was invented to compete with Christmas, so many Jews sort of acknowledge it in that way. Personally, I don't celebrate xmas at all-just by eating chinese food (cuz nothing else is open, in case you didn't know)
2016-05-22 23:49:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would people of the JEWISH faith celebrate a CHRISTIAN holiday?! Did you actually re-read your question before posting it???
)O(
2006-12-12 05:10:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judaism isn't a 'Christian' faith. They celebrate Hanukah. Although some Anglo-Jewish families I know celebrate both. Like Chrismukah.
2006-12-12 04:02:48 · answer #5 · answered by Ben631 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No they don't celebrate Christmas. They're not Christians. They're Jewish.
2006-12-12 04:03:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They celebrate Hanukkah, festival of lights they do not celebrate christmas because they do not believe that the messiah has already come(Jesus) as christmas is about a celebration of Jesus's birth.
2006-12-12 04:18:01 · answer #7 · answered by shiro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jews ARE NOT Christians, so they DON'T celebrate Christmas. However, they DO celebrate Hanukkah.
2006-12-12 04:03:01 · answer #8 · answered by tangerine 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the official position of Judaism on Christmas is that it is complete nonsense but we wont stop any Christians who want to celebrate it.
2006-12-13 18:33:50 · answer #9 · answered by abcdefghijk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Celebrate in what way? I am not christian, but pig out like the majority.
2006-12-12 04:05:07 · answer #10 · answered by lulu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋