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Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson on
"The 0.C.": The Fox series that popu-
larized the term "Chrismukkah" offers
faux-fur-trimmed )armuclauses" on
its Web site, www.theocinsider.com

Chrismukkah!"
Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenbaum, program
director at the National Jewish
Outreach Program in New York, takes
issue with this attitude.
"At least I would say to someone,
`Choose. Pick what you are,'" he says.
"If I were Christian, I would be insulted
by taking a Christian symbol and mak-
ing it Jewish, and I am insulted by tak-
ing Jewish symbols and making them
Christian."
But Nancy Berglass, a Jewish woman
in Los Angeles who is married to an
African-American Christian man, finds
such cards amusing. "I say more power
to them," she says.
Berglass and her husband are not rais-
ing their two young children in either
faith in particular — she speaks of "a
blending of our two religious, cultural
legacies" — and they light Chanukah
candles and give gifts on both holidays.
Not everyone's as supportive of inter-
faith holiday celebrations. One e-mail
sent to Gompertz denounces
Chrismukkah as "disgusting and insult-
ing to both Jews and non-Jews alike."
Still, Gompertz says, positive e-mail
responses have outnumbered negative
ones by about a 10-1 ratio, and the site
offers the following disclaimer: "We
respect people's different faiths and do
not suggest combining the religious
observance of Christmas and
Hanukkah."
In a recent survey by the
InterfaithFamily. corn Web site, more
than two-thirds of respondents said they
kept their holiday celebrations separate.
About 80 percent, though, said they
celebrated both Christmas and
Chanukah.
Although the Gompertz's cards have
sold well — 12-packs of the
"Chrismukkah Bush" and "Oy Joy"
varieties sold out — Gompertz insists
he's not in it for the money.
"No matter how many Chrismukkah
cards we sell this year, we're not going to
make any money," says Gompertz. Its
about encouraging a dialogue. Interfaith
marriage in America is one of the last
cultural taboos. It doesn't get talked
about much." I I

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