To the editor: Relating to Eli Federman’s piece on holiday lights, there’s nothing mistaken with illuminated Hanukkah decorations. In spite of everything, Hanukkah is the Pageant of Lights, a vacation celebrating Jews who fought off stress to adapt to a tradition that wasn’t theirs.
Christmas has been in our faces and ears since Halloween: lights, music, retailer shows, commercials and extra. Isn’t that sufficient? Jews usually are not lacking out on mild, magnificence or the rest by celebrating Hanukkah.
Being Jewish is sufficient. And being Jewish doesn’t imply that one can’t take pleasure in the great thing about the season.
However Hanukkah is not Jewish Christmas.
Jo Perry, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: One factor the author omitted: With the eight days of Hanukkah beginning on Christmas, the Jewish competition will stretch into the primary days of January. That means, most 2025 calendars will embody two Hanukkahs — one initially, and one other close to the tip. And with the best way the world has regarded in 2024, subsequent yr we’re gonna want as a lot mild as we are able to get!
Hank Rosenfeld, Santa Monica
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To the editor: My younger son was raised within the Jewish religion however had watched the “Peanuts” Christmas special the op-ed writer discusses many occasions. Then one Christmas Eve he attended midnight Mass together with his Catholic grandparents. When the Gospel of Luke was learn throughout the Mass, he whispered to them in astonishment, “I didn’t know the Gospel quoted ‘Peanuts!’ ” It was really a piece that unified all individuals, if not within the spirit of “Christmas,” at the least within the spirit of peace and goodwill to all.
Jane Diamond, Sherman Oaks
