My family’s doing the same this year. My father comes from a Christian family, and my mother from a Jewish one, and normally we’ve taken the excuse to celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, but this year our financial situation doesn’t allow for it.
I suppose it’s probably related to the fact that if you treat the holiday as an occasion to eat out, Chinese restaurants are more likely than most to actually be open (certainly more likely than most other restaurants that would have been around fifty years ago.) I wish that the Jews of a couple generations ago had managed to come up with a less lackluster tradition.
My family’s doing the same this year. My father comes from a Christian family, and my mother from a Jewish one, and normally we’ve taken the excuse to celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, but this year our financial situation doesn’t allow for it.
I suppose it’s probably related to the fact that if you treat the holiday as an occasion to eat out, Chinese restaurants are more likely than most to actually be open (certainly more likely than most other restaurants that would have been around fifty years ago.) I wish that the Jews of a couple generations ago had managed to come up with a less lackluster tradition.