11 Days to Chrismukkah
It's 10PM and I just got the last order of the day packed. Time for a glass of wine and tonights Daily Show.
Did I say things were starting to wind down? Never mind.
Today we had our busiest day of the year. We shipped well over 100 books and nearly a thousands cards.
As 4 PM approached, in a panic, I called my mother out of her daily bridge game at the senior center so she could look after Minna while Michelle and I packed orders. Michelle saved the day, making it to both the post office and the airport Fed Ex drop off with seconds to spare before cutoff. Meanwhile, I took calls from so many reporters that my voice is nearly gone.
Minna has been getting cranky... we're sure she's feeling our stress. We just keep reminding ourselves this is what we've wanted and that soon this will be behind us, and
The surge in activity apparently was the result of a thing they did on us on some Boston TV show, and a story that hit the wire service on Associated Press. Frankly, I haven't seem any of this, but the phone was ringing off the hook, mostly from customers who didn't own computers or couldn't load our Flash site, and wanted to order the cookbook the old fashioned way.
We leave for NYC Friday morning and tomorrow is our last day of shipping before Monday. Michelle still has hopes of finding the time to go shopping for a new outfit to wear on the show. I'm hoping we have some time after we're done with at taping to go ice skating at the Rockefeller Center rink. It's fun to be a tourist in NYC, even if you grew up there.
posted by Ron at 9:19 PM
23 Comments:
If you'd married an African American would you have created KWANAZUKAH? or RAMADANUKAH if you had chosen a Moslem as a mate? I assume to folks in Montana don't realize what an ignorant fool you are. Maybe you should combine Passover with April Fools day!
What utter nonsense just to justify your marriage to a shiksa. Hope her priest appreciates your site. the ancient Greeks who we defeated would have loved your site!
Don't be rediculous !!!!!
Make your MONEY, but call it something else please!! Why not "Holidaymukkah" or "Allahmukkah"? See how far you would get with that!
Dear Sir and Madam:
Why didn't you think of differing religious traditions before you got married? Wouldn't the simpliest-minded person have done so? Apparently you did not before you decided to procreate.
I have nothing against the Jews. I am probably more well-read in the Old Testiment than most. I appreciate their tradition and respect it. That is not to say that I agree with it since, as the New Testiment says, one can only obtain salvation through our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Your website trivializes the Christian tradition. Hanukkah celebrates the Jewish struggle for survival, as do many of the Jewish holidays. Christmas is the second most important Christian holiday.
I realize that Christ was not born on December 25 and that early Christians celebrated the holiday near the solctice to compete with the pagan traditions, but really, should we celebrate the birth of a saint or something (practically every day is either a feast or fast day) on Yom Kipper and then call it the Feast of St. Yom Peter?
In short, whichever one of you is Christian should be ashamed of themself or should, I respectfully submit, seriously consider converting so that you do not have these internal conflicts. Better yet, why don't you bond with our Africian-American brothers and sisters and celebrate Kwaanza?
I am not one of the Christian right-wing, born-again fanatics. I am simply a main-line Protestant. I find your web-site offensive and demeaning.
YOU ARE TOO MUCH! THIS IS JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR MY SON AND HIS FAMILY.
And a very happy CHANUKMAS TO YOU, TOO. YOU ARE TOO CLEVER.
I guess it won't arrive in time for the holiday, BUT SO WHAT??
Thank you so very very much. You have a friend NOT in Jesus, (sorry), Actually I don't know if he's your friend, but you DO have a friend in Forest Hills, NY.
When do you think it will reach them by priority mail?
Best wishes for a BANG-UP SEASON. Clever people like you will make it big.
I'm happy for you,
Carol
I heard about your product from the Don and Mike Show on the radio!
You really need to get on the FOX News Network. You and Sean would hit it off real well (Ha). All they're talking about every moment is how everyone is trying to steal Christmas. Your spin would definitely be a fun one for them to play with.
You know, your site is very offensive to me as a Jew, but also as a product of an interfaith family.
Although I was raised as an Orthodox Jew and remain one ( my mother converted to Orthodox Judaism a few years before she married my born-Jewish father), I feel I am from an inter-cultural family if not a truly interfaith one. I remember Christmas at my grandmother's home, and also Chanukah at ours. But never once did anyone in my family (Jew or gentile ) see fit to blend the two. They at least understood the difference.
Chanukah is a holiday against Jewish assimilation and the melange of a Jewish holiday with a gentile one. If I as a Jew feel offended at the blending of the two holidays, I'm sure Christians would also feel offended. You make a mockery and a joke out of two holidays that are very sacred and holy to two faith groups that have nothing in common.
I am trying to find the price of the Christmas balls that have the blue Star of David on them but I can't find the specific item. Can you help me? Tks cc
your site is offensive. If you understood the reason for Chanuka, you would understand.
The Nazis couldn’t do a better job at destroying the Jewish people than you.
How appalling.
That is an incredibly ignorant and offensive email. You have no idea
what you are talking about.
If you choose to think that, and the thought comforts you in this
world, so
be it.
You will die the death of assimilation and be destroyed from K'lal
Yisrael.
I am not comforted at all by the idea that intolerant, fear-filled,
religious fundamentalist beliefs (no matter the religion) is the cause
for so much death, destruction and hate around the world.
IF you think Torah Judaism is the cause of any death in the world, you have
simply confirmed that you are blatantly ignorant of Torah, and K'lal
Yisrael.
If you think rebuking your immorality is "intolerance", you are no longer
part of the Jewish people.
If you think courting idolatry is a "way to celebrate", ,you are LOST to
your people.
Channukah is the celebration of the victory OVER esau, over the idolatry of
the goyim of the west, over assimilation, and here you are bastardizing the
message by embracing the thing that has tried to destroy us since Esau.
Rebuking profound ignorance is not intolerance. The goyim are free to do as
they wish. A Jew however has a responsibility which doesn't include your
anti-semitic actions. And a final note; there is no fear of man, however,
only a fool has no fear of hashem. You have demonstrated that trait
abundantly.
Redicukkah, Politicalcorrecectukkah, Stupidkkah.
Excuse me?
CHRISMAS celebrates the birth of Christ our Savior.
Hanukkah is for Jews.
The rest of our society has Commercialism.
Get rid of this silly, "all inclusive" made up Holiday.
We don't need it to express tolerance for each other every December.
This is brilliant!! I love your site and hope it catches on. The absurdity is hilarious! I love the Deck the Halls song and will be singing that this year.
Merry Mazeltov - days to you!
Ellen Brockstein
Oy Vey
What next???
Dear Chrismukkah.com,
You should sell yammulklauses!! Also Star-of-David-shaped cookie
cutters (for making gingerbread cookies). Can't wait to see what your
catalog has to offer next year.
Merry mazel tov,
I loved your website!!
Here's an idea for next season,
CHRISMAKKUH SWEATERS, there are thousands of Christmas sweaters for adults out there, a few Chanukah sweaters, but no chrismakkuh sweaters.
Keep me in mind when you make some!!!
You're site made me smile...love the music.
Anyway, I write a syndicated advice column about being Jewish. This time of year I get the most email. Thought you might like the column I just wrote. Feel free to use it or post it.
Happy holidays!
Dear Ron and Michelle:
Founding your site (thru your article in InterfaithFamily.com)
lightens my heart!
Being the Jewish part of our interfaith family it hasn't always been
easy here in Vienna for us to live this religous-mixed life we have
but after a few years it seems that all friends of ours now anxiously
are waiting for our selfmade Weihnukkah-cards - selfmade since first
of all you wouldn't get them here and second since my (Catholic)
husband is Creative Director at an advertising agency here in Vienna.
Reading the press release about Chrismukkah and Seth Cohen made me
laugh so hard - I remember when my kids (12 and 9) saw this episode it
was: "Hey, they are doing the same as we do every year!"
There's more or less no Reformed Jewish community here in Austria. The
conservative rabbi wouldn't celebrate together with a Catholic priest
- so we had the hardest time celebrating our wedding with both
religions incorporated (but we did it!) I wish my late father Edgar
Ulmer could have been with us when we lit the unity candles while
listening to "Sunrise, Sunset"
I am glad I found your site and I am already looking forward to next
year to have menorahments on our christmas tree (it's to late to order
them for this year ;-(() - just like my stocking has Stars of David
embroidered ...
Wishing both of you and your families a very merry Chrismukkah - "Ein
fröhliches Weihnukkah", Carola and family
Avoda Zara is a serious sin. Try googling that, maybe it will lead you to teshuva and to fully understand why xstianity should never be combined with Judaism! Combining an idolotrous religion (as it is avoda zara to worship a man) with Judaim is horrible. Stick to xstianity if you like worshiping idols. Why believe in a religion that tells you santa and the easter bunny are real - blatant lies? Silly.
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