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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by 29athrowaway on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @01:23AM (#42507241)
Jews have contributed significantly to what is recognizable today as Christmas time.

Many catchy classic Christmas songs were written by Jewish songwriters.

Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by madnthrow on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @01:56AM (#42507385)
That's nice!
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by petre on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @04:28AM (#42507865)
Bob Dylan has Jewish heritage as well, although I don't recall him writing any Christmas songs.
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by defrost on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @04:37AM (#42507899)
I don't think he wrote any .. but he did release an entire album of classic christmas songs ..

Christmas in the Heart (2009) - 34th Studio album by Bob Dylan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Heart

Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by asveikau on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @10:47AM (#42509332)
Didn't he go through a phase in the 80s in which he was super into Christianity?
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by petre on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:39AM (#42509594)
Yup, he embraced Christianity, that's why I wrote "heritage".
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by midnightchair on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @05:18AM (#42508031)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by a great Jewish man, how cool is that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._May

Rudolph has an odd nose, and he gets chosen to lead all the other Reindeer! Kids love this song. You teach it to them when they are young and they'll never forget it!

Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by tux on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @10:25PM (#42512925)
I’m sure this is just a coincidence than but Rudolph sounds a like Adolf, or in today’s concept Russian Adolf. And word red doesn’t help, as red was favorite SSSR color. 0_o
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by hnuser123456 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @10:10AM (#42515652)
They're just Germanic names
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by ix101 on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @08:04AM (#42508600)
That second sentence was absolutely not what the first sentence led me to believe what was coming!
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by heresie-dabord on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @08:52AM (#42508772)
Just say the name of the great jazz artist Mel Tormé...

"I saw a spiral pad... Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christmas_Song

Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by shdickxnsks on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:09AM (#42509433)
Indeed, nearly all popular christmas songs today have no mention of christ.
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by ilbeeper on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @01:11PM (#42510146)
We also contributed the protagonist.
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by 29athrowaway on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:51PM (#42517718)
We all know that the protagonist of Christmas in 2024 are Santa Claus and the gifts. It has been massively secularized.
Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by judah on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @02:40PM (#42510688)
Jews wrote all the classic Christmas hits including:

- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

- Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

- The New Testament

Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by e40 on Friday December 27, 2024 @03:29AM (#42520708)
You need to hit an open mic night. You are hilarious.