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fromThe Forward
1 week ago

When Jews really did wage a 'war on Christmas'

On a frigid winter's day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York's Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school. It wasn't a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the Yiddish press had called for a boycott of the Christmas assemblies and pageants that they knew Jewish children would be obliged to attend on the day before the holiday.
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fromJewish Telegraphic Agency
1 week ago

When Jews really did wage a 'war on Christmas' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

In 1906 New York Jewish parents boycotted school Christmas assemblies to resist compulsory Christian rituals and assert religious freedom and church–state separation.
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