Just looking at the humorous side of it, Larry. > On Dec 30, 2019, at 2:50 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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.
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