Yay Christmas!

Michael L.

I actually love Christmas.

When I was a kid, in the burbs of Connecticut and New York, my older sister would every year ask my folks for a "Chanukah Bush" and every year my father would tell her "no."

Thank G-d for my old man, but to this day I still have an affection for Christmas.

I do not know how it is played out in other cultures, really, but within the United States it is basically a celebration of friendship and life.

Christmas is among my favorite holidays.

I love Passover.

I love Thanksgiving.

And, yes - shoot me dead ya bastards - I love Christmas.

I imagine that there must be one or two devout Christians who occasionally read Israel Thrives and to them I just want to wish a very Merry Christmas.

G-d bless our Christian friends.

{We certainly need them.}