In pointing out that many of our favorite Christmas songs - Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" and Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song" among them - were written by Jewish composers, Feinstein captures what has always been the most important aspect of the season, at least for me...
"... the spirit of the holiday is universal. We live in a multicultural time and the mixing, and mixing up, of traditions is an inevitable result.
"As Jews, Christians, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists and everything in between, we are all more alike than we are different," Feinstein says. "That’s something to celebrate."...
In looking for something to illustate this, I found this wonderful blog by a guy in Jerusalem who has written several books on the Star of David... Here is an entry about the blending of traditions, with a Star of David on a Christmas tree...
In the spirit of celebrating our differences, I guess it's okay for Bono to have a column in the Times... I liked this one...
Didn't know he was a Sinatra fan!... Incidentally, Ol' Blue Eyes' birthday was Dec. 12... He was a Sagittarius, which is no big surprise!...
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