Holiday
Chat
DANIELLA age 13, from NC
Hi! I am Jewish, and I wanted to share what my holiday is about and why we celebrate. So I wrote this short interaction between two fictional characters texting about the holidays. Their names are Scarlet and Ruth, and I hope you enjoy it!
S: Hey girl! U excited for Christmas?? R: Actually, I don’t celebrate Christmas... I’m Jewish. S: WHAT?!?
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S: Do you celebrate anything instead of X-mas? R: Yeah! I actually celebrate Chanukkah! S: What’s that? R: It’s called the festival of lights. It’s celebrated for 8 days & nights and each night we light a different number of candles on the menorah, one for each night! Some families give gifts because when Jews started to live in America and all these kids would get presents on Christmas, the Jewish kids felt left out. We make Latkes or potato pancakes and eat jelly donuts. We play dreidel and eat gelt or chocolate gold coins. GirlStoryMag.com • Yearbook 2021
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S: Sounds cool but y do u celebrate? R: Well, we celebrate because of two miracles that happened a long time ago. The Jews and Greeks used to live together in harmony. But then a new king came to the throne and decided that the only religion allowed was the Greek religion and nothing else. All of the
