Presumably the point of this documentary is to promote ecumenical brotherhood & whatnot but I find it to be aggravating at times.
This is annoying - shortly after Pearl Harbor - Irving Berlin released "White Christmas" - that, according to this documentary, removes Christ from Christmas 
& makes the holiday secular & only about snow 
(no, it doesn't).
Jackie Mason then (jokingly?) compares Christians to cattle 
https://dreamingofajewishchristmas.com/
https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/109531720125887286
https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/109531914291211427
Not to be persnickety, but this documentary is inaccurate
https://dreamingofajewishchristmas.com/
Johnny Marks only wrote the music 
to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's lyrics 
" I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/house-divided/wp/2016
/12/22/longfellows-i-hear-the-bells-on-christmas-day-has-two-stanzas-you-rarely-hear/
Actually, I like Casting Crowns 's adaption of Longfellow 's lyrics
https://youtu.be/M7670CXvPX0
https://www.jwpepper.com/I-Heard-the-Bells-on-Christmas-D
ay/10310243.item#.Y55g8X3MKUk
better than Marks - even if it is sung by Bing Crosby
https://youtu.be/aMmRkimMBOE
This documentary does point out that Jesus was Jewish 
but then points out that the Puritans outlawed Christmas - but that seems mainly due to their hatred of all things Catholic versus any animosity towards Jesus
https://dreamingofajewishchristmas.com/
As Philomena Cunk / Diane Morgan points out - the Puritans' sola scriptura standards weren't always entirely logical:
"Christians shouldn't celebrate Christmas because it isn't in the Bible, but instead should be in Church, which isn't in the Bible, reading the Bible, which isn't in the Bible "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNA6b66bILk&lc=UgzapgPZKi
Dr Taylor pushes back against the smear that Catholics just made up the date of December 25 (as was asserted in the video of the previous post) to dunk on pagans & gives the Biblical & historical support for Christmas
https://youtu.be/6ZKidBymj3A
https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/109536718161228166
"DREAMING OF A JEWISH CHRISTMAS" documentary makes me want to boycott all secular "Christmas" songs in the future. Non-Christian composers, instead of being ecumenical & open minded, are condescending & censorious:
Rob Bowman: "If you look at virtually every Christmas song written by a Jewish composer, they're not religious. This is taking Christmas out of anything about a baby Jesus &, you know, the manger & all of that stuff, & it's creating a new mythology, the mythology of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
https://dreamingofajewishchristmas.com/
It makes me even more supportive of the grumpy nun's POV in "Doubt" & to ban the playing of pagan songs like "Frosty the Snow Man" 
https://youtu.be/-nh3g6F63qM
https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/109560118378566018
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