The inescapable and ubiquitous Christmas songs, specials, etc -- and how us Jews helped create and embed them, have fought against them, and how some deal with it now -- fa-who dor-ay, fa-who dor-ay, ...

The white Christmases that Irving Berlin dreamed of weren't the earliest ones he used to know. ... watching his neighbors burn his family's house to the ground in a good old-fashioned, Jew-hating pogrom.
So it's no surprise that when Berlin got around to writing his great Christmas song in 1941, nearly half a century after his family had fled the shtetl of Mohilev for New York's Lower East Side, it was flatly devoid of Christian imagery. It is, for all that, a religious song. ...

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I'll keep my opinion to myself. Because I'm interested in what you think:

Looks like there’s a new craze in the publicity-winning social faux pas. Taking a page from Micheal Ray Richardson’s playbook, bullet riddled gangsta rapper 50 Cent would like to let you know that his lawyers are Jewish. And vicious.

The NY Daily News reports

Hip-hop artist 50 Cent added his two cents on the Tony Yayo assault case - and inserted his foot in his mouth at the same time.

Yayo, a member of 50 Cent’s notorious G-Unit crew, was arrested last week for allegedly attacking the 14-year-old son of music industry rival Jimmy (Henchmen) Rosemond last month in Manhattan.

50 Cent called into “Miss Jones in the Morning” on Hot 97 yesterday and said the 29-year-old Yayo’s troubles won’t hurt his crew.

But then he added, “Worry about the Je-Je-Je-Jew unit. They’re the real goon squad. When the lawyers come out, you’ll see what it is. I don’t pay nobody. I only pay the lawyers.”

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