A Merry Jewish Christmas?
By Avraham Azrieli*
Christmas as a Jewish holiday? This proposition usually earns derision or a stern lecture accompanied by clenched fists. Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Christian messiah whose crucifixion unleashed a perpetual blood libel against the Jewish people.
For many centuries, “Jesus killers!” was a rallying cry for attacking Jewish communities, for robbing, raping, knifing, spearing, axing,
burning, drawing, quartering, hanging, drowning,...