> On Dec 30, 2019, at 11:32 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > I understand. But It struck me as yet another humorous example of PC culture. > I suppose we could rename the menorah “New Year’s Candelabra.” :-)
Except that even non-practicing people of Jewish descent in the Soviet Union were persecuted, so anybody lighting a menorah in the Soviet Union was doing it in an act of religious civil defiance. I can assure you that for a Soviet era Ukrainian of Jewish descent, it is not a Christmas tree and calling it a New Year’s tree is a statement of fact and not an act of political correctness. If I have my details correct, they are normally put up between the “new new year” (Jan 1) and the “old new year” (Jan 15) If she had been able to obtain one after Christmas it would have been a lot easier for her to do so. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
