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Hanukkah’s arrival on Christmas Day renews ‘Chrismukkah’ deliberations for interfaith families

JL;DR SUMMARY As Hanukkah converges with Christmas on December 25, interfaith families like Sarah Levitin's and Laurie Beijen's navigate the complexities and opportunities of what some call "Chrismukkah." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Religious ObservanceJewish IdentityFamily DynamicsChristmasHanukkahInterfaith FamiliesCultural AdaptationChrismukkahTradition Blending18doors

Places mentioned

Brookline, New York, United States
"Instead, Dan drove into Brookline, a heavily Jewish Boston suburb near where they live, to pick up Chinese food."
San Francisco, California, United States
"Beijen, 50, is a San Francisco native who grew up agnostic and married Ben, a Jew from North Carolina."
Utah, United States
"Now, Beijens family has their own holiday tradition: they get out of town. The family goes skiing in Utah, and then travels somewhere warm this year, to Cozumel."
Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico
"Now, Beijens family has their own holiday tradition: they get out of town. The family goes skiing in Utah, and then travels somewhere warm this year, to Cozumel."
North Carolina, United States
"Beijen, 50, is a San Francisco native who grew up agnostic and married Ben, a Jew from North Carolina."
Papua New Guinea
"But even their religion-free custom has a holiday component: the family they travel with, while not Jewish, always requests that Beijen bring latke batter to fry together in Utah."
Israel
"Levitin, who grew up attending Jewish day school and traveled to Israel on a Birthright trip, had not planned to light Hanukkah candles when she joined her boyfriends Sicilian and Polish family for Christmas."

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