Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas For a sheer mind-boggling scenario it’s hard to beat the movie “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.” How about serenading a roomful of predominantly Jewish customers by a group of Chinese waiters singing “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” — in Yiddish, yet —at a Canadian restaurant on Christmas Eve? Or that “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is an allegory of the Jewish immigrants — with prominent noses— who swarmed into New York and were derided as “Orientals” by the “real” Americans. The launching pad for the film’s shenanigans and weig...
Source: jewishjournal.com