I am inclined to say that if you do a little more thinking and learning, and a little less wondering, you wouldn't need to ask such a question. However, I should just add a note for the perplexed. Members of ANY religious grouping have their own level of observance as INDIVIDUALS and those who are assimilated into the host nation/culture to the point of losing their own cultural/religious identity will obviously have no qualms about celebrating its festivals. In Britain, for example, Christmas has become little more than a winter's national holiday wrapped up in an orgy of commercialism. It stands to reason, therefore, that any British NON-observant Jew (or Muslim or Hindu, etc.) might well get caught up in what are, to all intents and purposes, secular festivities. This does not, of course, apply to mainstream Jewry.
Your confusion may arise from your limited understanding of the term 'Jew'. According to Jewish law, a person is a Jew who is born of a Jewish mother. Therefore, the term also encompasses not only religion but race and culture. The fact that someone is born a Jew will always make him eligible to participate in religious rites as a Jew no matter how observant or not he chooses to be in later life.
I'm not sure if you really wanted to know all this or whether you were just trying to be a smart@ss but I've given you the benefit of the doubt.
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No Jewish people do not believe Jesus was the messiah. They are still waiting for the messiah to come.
Wonder no longer. Let me tell you. No they don't.
I am inclined to say that if you do a little more thinking and learning, and a little less wondering, you wouldn't need to ask such a question. However, I should just add a note for the perplexed. Members of ANY religious grouping have their own level of observance as INDIVIDUALS and those who are assimilated into the host nation/culture to the point of losing their own cultural/religious identity will obviously have no qualms about celebrating its festivals. In Britain, for example, Christmas has become little more than a winter's national holiday wrapped up in an orgy of commercialism. It stands to reason, therefore, that any British NON-observant Jew (or Muslim or Hindu, etc.) might well get caught up in what are, to all intents and purposes, secular festivities. This does not, of course, apply to mainstream Jewry.
Your confusion may arise from your limited understanding of the term 'Jew'. According to Jewish law, a person is a Jew who is born of a Jewish mother. Therefore, the term also encompasses not only religion but race and culture. The fact that someone is born a Jew will always make him eligible to participate in religious rites as a Jew no matter how observant or not he chooses to be in later life.
I'm not sure if you really wanted to know all this or whether you were just trying to be a smart@ss but I've given you the benefit of the doubt.
Jews celebrate Hannakuh and Yom Kippur.
But my family is different. We celebrate Christmas, and I'm half Reform Jew half Methodist Christian. And my mom is Jewish. Not by heritage, by faith.
They could because it is a celebration of Jesus' birth. And he was a Jewish prophet. I wonder if Jews ever think about this?
No they don't. Jews celebrate Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashannah, and Hanukkah.
I don't think they usually do. It depends on the situation.
My stepmom is Jewish and her and my dad celebrated Christmas and all of the Jewish holidays.
Hannukah..not Christmas...
No they don`t,or at least not in the traditional way. They celebrate Hanukkah.
Why the need for the hostility to this question ? If you don't know you ask, there was nothing rude or provocative about this question.
No they celebrate Hanuka