Defenses against jealousy

northeastmom
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:19:29 +0000

“Please remember that the people who did the kind of boycot that you describe represented what I personally call the “lunatic fringe” or Christianity.”

NSM, I don’t know about that. It seems that many TV personalities were on the tube last year were very vocal about this matter.

I am glad that you shared your dreidel/Kwanzaa story. When my youngest was in a public elementary/middle school there were Christmas cookies baked, various holiday songs sung, and potato latkes eaten. The potato latkes came to a halt when, as the story was told, one parent marched into the principal’s office and stated that her son is a Christian and will not be exposed to Latkes. This is a potato pancake, so what is the harm? Well, I had been told that this mother threatened to sue the school! Anyway, my son had Christmas cookies, and holiday songs, but the Jewish tradition of latkes were taken away that year.