{"id":9217,"date":"2009-06-28T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2009-06-28T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T22:16:07","slug":"seasons-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9217","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before every major Jewish holiday, you find in Jewish publications such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\">The Jewish Week<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\">Jewish Journal of Los Angeles<\/a> various forms of &quot;Season&#8217;s Greetings&quot; aka &quot;Rosh Hashanah Greetings&quot; aka &quot;Chanukkah Greetings&quot; aka &quot;Passover Greetings&quot; from numerous politicians and businesses and non-profits with money to burn.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marc B. Shapiro noted that a non-Orthodox synagogue in an edition of The Jewish Week just before Chanukkah takes out an ad for &quot;Chanukkah Greetings.&quot; This whole notion of &quot;Season&#8217;s Greetings&quot; is a Gentile one. And this one non-Orthodox synagogue wishes people &quot;a healthy and peaceful Chanukkah.&quot; As if Chanukkah has nothing to do with the fighting strength of the Maccabees and we&#8217;re instead celebrating the Prince of Peace aka Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>(From Dr. Shapiro&#8217;s second lecture on David Zvi Hoffman for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before every major Jewish holiday, you find in Jewish publications such as The Jewish Week and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles various forms of &quot;Season&#8217;s Greetings&quot; aka &quot;Rosh Hashanah Greetings&quot; aka &quot;Chanukkah Greetings&quot; aka &quot;Passover Greetings&quot; from numerous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,18],"tags":[18123,29808,1910,18122,18121,8890],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro","category-orthodoxy","tag-jewish-publications","tag-marc-b-shapiro","tag-orthodox-synagogue","tag-prince-of-peace","tag-seasons-greetings","tag-torah-in-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}