>>>>>Then you and the rest of the 25% do not need to celebrate Christmas right? You wouldn't want to be a hypocrite.
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>>>>Can't speak for Mike, but I _don't_ celebrate Christmas. It is a day off because everything's closed, but we use to get things done around the house or hang out with friends or watch movies.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>I remember a discussion of family Christmas traditions and my friend Paul Steinfeld offered "Chinese food!" <bg>
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>>>He sent me this - thought you'd get a kick out of it ( purported to have been taken at Walmart )
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>>>http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1183.snc4/150517_10150100047704874_668599873_7166463_2468757_n.jpg
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>>Yeah, that one hit my inbox last week. This morning, I was amused (or was it bemused) to find an ad in our Jewish weekly from a local luggage store showing a Christmas ornament and big letters "9 more days." This company does a tremendous amount of business in the Jewish community and surely knows better.
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>>Tamar
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>Would it really alienate or anger the Jewish community? It looks like "business" to me - just trying to get as many sales in as possible from all of your customers before the holiday and end of year...if it does alienate the Jewish customers then it was a poor business call...

I imagine there'll be a lot of head-shaking, but probably no real consequences business-wise. But it was a careless choice.

Now and then, one of the supermarkets will advertise ham or something in this paper as well.

Occasionally, someone writes a letter to the editor complaining about all the ads for non-kosher restaurants, especially when one of them advertises lobster or something.

Tamar