Dialogue's 2012 Christmas Advent Countdown
December 8, 2012Happy Holidays from Dialogue Journal!
As a special advent-themed treat, Dialoguejournal.com will be featuring holiday-flavored offerings from it’s archives leading up to Christmas Day.
Today’s offering: “A Jew Among Mormons“ (In honor of the first night of Hanukkah) a personal essay by Steve Siporin
Here’s a taste:
“When Christmas approaches, our usually sensitive system suddenly suspends the separation of church and state. Ethnocentrism takes over and runs amuck. To protest puts one in the position of Scrooge in the perennial favorite, A Christmas Carol.To protest is to spoil everyone’s fun, to refuse to join in and be a part of it all. But Jews cannot, by definition, be part of Christmas, if they are to be Jews.”
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