I already refuse to shop at Wal-Mart because of how they treat their employees. Now I'm thinking they need some better PR people, too. As the Facebook caption had said:
"Dear Wal-Mart,
You're barking up the wrong tree.
Love,
The Jews"
"Dear Wal-Mart,
You're barking up the wrong tree.
Love,
The Jews"
7 comments:
Holy smoke!
Savta
Ah, the midwest.
Mom
I lol'ed, yet somehow I'm going to end up defending Walmart by saying that at least they're acknowledging Hanukkah (ineptly, but still)--at Target it's XMas on crack. We have one tiny back-end of a row where the Hanukkah stuff lives.
Back in the 60's when the movement started in California demanding public-alignment for Hanukkah with Christmas, I opposed it. In America, Christmas and Easter are and always have been national holidays, celebrated in public more commercially than religiously. Sobeit.
I feel that our Jewish holidays are OURS, and should not be in competition. Why not recognize the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the "the binding of Ishmael" -- or Ramadan? Which, in fact, I believe the White House now does. Shouldn't Hindu, Buddhist and B'hai holidays follow?
Everybody in America knows what Christmas is. Who knows what Hanukkah is?...and to highlight it makes a mockery of it...as shown by Walmart's ineptness.
Is American communal cohesiveness strengthened by such tokens? On the contrary, I believe it creates divisiveness and diminishes the sanctity of our observances.
Savta
Becca, good point!
And Savta, I think I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. Hanukkah isn't in competition. But it's good for Jews to have their holidays be acknowledged. We live in a secular Christian society, and if we don't have any widespread treatment of our winter holidays, then it would get very very depressing and isolating. As far as Ramadan and B'hai holidays - bring it on!!
We can agree to disagree. We come not only from different generations, but also from different worlds.
Savta
Amen to that, Savta.
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