They make a pretty big deal of Christmas at the school here. There's a tree in the cafeteria, and the classes are all singing Jingle Bells and cutting out angels and Santa Clauses.
When E. came home and asked if he could make some Christmas decorations for our house, Dan asked him: Hey, have you told Ms. W. that we're Jewish?
We suggested he make some Hanukkah decorations, and E. ran with it. He's always up for a project. Here's one of the results:
(In case you can't read it, it's a little sign that says: Yipyiippeee!!! Happy Chanukah!!!)
2 comments:
Funny, you don't look Jewish.
I do not know what the nickname/ word 'Ju' means.
I don't know if it's African, Brazilian, Portuguese or a mixture of all 3, slang name for a little baby that Dete the house keeper nicknamed out of love.
This strikes me as very old world (custom).
I don't know if the word has any connection phonetically with the word 'Jew' or it's coincidences that the 2 words sound alike, or even if they have similar meanings at all.
But what I do know is that your family is from the House of David, The Sons of Judah.
And that is very much worth teaching, and puts a whole new meaning on the word/nickname 'Ju'.
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