‘Tis The Season To Be Cynical, Part 2

jewsmasAnother retarded wintertime holiday intending to blend random parts of Chanukah and Christmas like a bad casserole? Fuhgeddaboudit.

On further inspection, however, the creators of Jewsmas don’t appear to be advocating the commingling of holidays, but are rather trying to protect them from dilution:

We know that Chanukah is not the Jewish Christmas! No, we must reclaim Chanukah for what it is: a celebration of freedom, faith and miracles from G-d. And to do that, we create a new holiday, the Jewish Christmas. From this time forward, each year on the first Saturday after Christmas, Jews and Christians shall gather together and celebrate Jewsmas … Now leave Chanukah the hell alone!

Fabricated traditions include the Dreidel Drinking Game (with the extremely alocoholic conconction Meshuganog) and proper mumbling of carols, which sound like good clean crosscultural fun, but cheese and chocolate fondue? Barf. Not to mention the “Ogling of Shiksas,” which crosses the wrong side of my feminism detector.

I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt that the site was created as a satirical response to all the other fake holidays — mostly because they’re not really trying to sell anything. (Well, they have t-shirts, but who doesn’t?)

4 thoughts on “‘Tis The Season To Be Cynical, Part 2

  1. Atleast Chanukah has not been pagan-ized (to the best of my knowledge) like Christmas… honestly who decorates and worships trees? St. Nick, the holiday shopping, the decorated shrubs, those christians let thier holiday get commercialized, pagan-ized, sold to the highest bidder and plastered on the side of a lunch box. I’m glad Chanukah is low-key and true to it’s roots. Only the true faithful and the spiritual folks need to apply.

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