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- From: israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
- Subject: Re: Secular??? (was: ACLU/AJC Menorah Police?)
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:19:37 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- Message-ID: <israel.725102377@unixg.ubc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec21.175723.8150@sarah.albany.edu> <765333d8151344t199@witsend.uucp>
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- In <765333d8151344t199@witsend.uucp> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
-
- > Anybody care to comment on the trend to throw in a token Jewish
- > reference (saw a commercial tonight with several Xmas scenes and
- > one kid lighting Hannukah candles -- w/o kippa -- and then closing
- > with a "Happy Holidays")?
-
- > It seems that the schools are trying to duck the charge of Xian
- > religious content by adding whatever other ingredients they figure
- > will 'balance' things out. So far, I haven't had much luck
- > explaining that we don't feel left out, we just want to be left
- > alone.
-
- Perhaps the strangest example I've seen was in the Vancouver Sun today:
-
- "Literally half of my students aren't Christian," said A.E. Perry
- [elementary school] teacher Dyanne Sharp. So her Grade 4 class
- are singing a song about Hannukah during the school's Christmas
- concert.
-
- The school in question is in Kamloops, BC, which has practically no
- Jewish population. The non-Christian half of the class would, I
- presume, be Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. Probably not a single Jew
- among them. So they stick in a reference to Hannukah and call
- themselves multicultural.
-
- --
- Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
- Department of Mathematics or israel@unixg.ubc.ca
- University of British Columbia
- Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Y4
-