Do 4 Percent Of Orthodox Jews Really Put Up Christmas Trees?
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By The Scribe December 4, 2017
Do Jews put up Christmas trees?
We recently surveyed our readers, and were surprised that a full 20% reported that “hell yes” they do.
But given the results found in the 2013 Pew Study’s Portrait of Jewish Americans, perhaps we shouldn’t have been:
Image by Laura E. Adkins
Do a full third of Jews really put up trees? Perhaps. But I’ve never met an Orthodox Jew who does.
To those silent 4% — please, please, email me. I want to hear your story — and how you make that work!
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