Another year and another Christmas Eve spent working for In Jesus’ Name and USH to deliver food and gifts to those less fortunate in Hoboken. Thanks to Idan, Mom, and Katie for helping out. I don’t have the energy to rant and rave about what is wrong with the world. I simply am amazed, again, that there is such inequity.

The memo is simple: Dear Jews, if you plan on celebrating your holiday please do it quietly and in the corner and if you happen to ever think your holiday is as important as ours we will certainly remind you of your minority status.

When city officials planted a 7-foot-tall Christmas tree next to a 20-foot-tall menorah in the plaza in front of City Hall, some residents barked. They telephoned City Hall, wrote letters and testified at a public hearing that the tiny tree in the shadow of the huge Hanukkah symbol was an insult to Christians.

At the left you can see what this “Lamb of G-d” saved us from and how the vast majority of co-called Christians celebrate the redemption of the world from darkness - a vast array of crap imported from China, furthering our debt to them, filling our landfills with crap, and gutting all meaning from life. Anyway, a holiday that is about shopping, running up debt, and is not even held on their false messiah’ real birth day, but instead on a pagan winter festival, where they erect and worship a tree somehow needs to be visually equal to a holiday where a whole nation shirked off the world’s first superpower and prevailed in rededicating the Temple to the one true G-d. Who, by the way doesn’t like blood drinking, nor does G-d like erection of idols. But that never seems to stop the Christians from worshiping the wrong things.

Katie and I are just back from making some deliveries around Hoboken for some of the less fortunate. I have to admit that I had no idea there was that level of struggling right in my own backyard. On the cusp of 2007, I am going to use this feeling to volunteer even more in Hoboken.

One older lady, who only spoke Italian, was so happy to see my sister and me with bags of food she wouldn’t stop kissing us and hugging us.

I feel badly about the level of excess I have. There are 5 computers in this house and nearby there are people who need food donations. This is definitely going to change.

Last night on Fox 5 - before you laugh, sometimes it is nice to be infotained - they went over the policy change at Wal*Mart and Macy’s where they are going to start to say Merry Christmas again this year. They had people call or email what they think about this.
The Wal*Mart guy said something like: “We learned from last year and we think Merry Christmas ties in with our promotions and efforts.”

Um, where to begin?

It is sad that the birth of the man who is viewed by over a billion people to be the savior of all mankind is a marketing gimmick for Wal*Mart and Macy’s. In fact this borders on being really offensive.

Lets put it another way: Could you imagine Moses or Mohamed being linked to a holiday in this way? No, it isn’t going to happen. Think about using Jesus to sell cars. Offended yet? You should be.

The reactions of the people who contacted Fox 5 were all over the place, as to be expected. But not a single one said what needs to be said: “Jesus is the reason for the season.” This is not a secular holiday. This is not an American Holiday. This is a 2000 year old celebration of the birth of, to some, The Moshiach, The Anointed One, Savior Mankind, Christ.

War? Poverty? Elections? Who cares? We have all the fake trees from China we need 80 days before the holiday. Jesus please save us from your followers.