When you walk around New York City this time of year, you can’t not think about Christmas. Every shop and cafe you enter is playing Christmas songs in non-stop rotation.<\/p>\n
Which is ironic, because NYC is one of those places in the U.S. which has a huge non-Christian population — mainly Jews and Muslims, but also pretty much every other faith, as well as a beefy contingent of complete non-believers.<\/p>\n
As I walked into one store I was hit by another irony. They were playing Bing Crosby’s version of White Christmas<\/i>, which I believe is the best selling single of all time.<\/p>\n
The thing, in that moment, which struck me as ironic is that the most popular Christmas song of all time was written by a Jew.<\/p>\n
But then I remembered. “Oh, right, the entire holiday is about a Jew.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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