Jewish Christmas Tree

Rollie s christmas tree farm is located in lowell ma.

Jewish christmas tree. In fact there are enough jewish families setting up trees in december that hanukkah tree toppers and ornaments are readily available. A 2013 pew survey found that less than a third of jews have a christmas tree and most of those are intermarried. So i have a christmas tree in my house. Our tree farm is on 15 acres of land and we have over 20 000.

As christmas approaches many jewish families especially interfaith families confront the question. But i do not think judaism will die because some of us decorate a tree in december. Rollie s farm lowell ma. Make up your own tree story.

Here s why not that you asked. Do you have a tree both married to non jews but raising jewish children friends aliza worthington and shoshana martyniak have two very different answers. According to the 1990 national jewish population survey 82 of jewish households never have a christmas tree and the idea of a chanukkah bush is mostly a joke not anything anybody takes seriously. Find a way to use a tree to support jewish heritage and marvel at the beauty of nature.

Sarna said rabbis across the spectrum viewed the christmas tree as a symbol from which jews should stand apart while many christian faith leaders opposed the idea of a secular christmas and urged jews not to put trees in their home fearing that christ would be taken out of christmas sarna said. That having a christmas tree even if you call it a hanukkah bush flies in the face of the true meaning of hanukkah. It may for all intents and purposes be a christmas tree without any christian ornaments. It is the beauty created by those who decorate the tree and their love for g d that goes into the creation that matters.

Taking an evergreen tree into your house in winter when all other trees in the northern temperate zone have no leaves now demonstrated christian faith. 1 142 likes 114 talking about this 1 723 were here. Even though her husband bruno was originally radically against it for. Jewish new yorker and mother of two ingrid always had a christmas tree at home since her children were very little.

Yes i understand that some may see this as a problem. A hanukkah bush is a bush or tree real or simulated that some north american jewish families display in their homes for the duration of hanukkah. Christmas trees in america say that for some americans.