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I grew up in Nassau county, so lots of Jews and lots of Christians. It seems the Christmasifying of Hanukkah was pretty prevalent. But then, Hanukkah is a minor holiday. Purim, Yom Kippur, and Passover did seem to stay fairly traditional among Jews.

Although I still find it incredibly odd that the Christian families would string up all these lights and most of the Jewish families didn't. The lights really have nothing to do with Christmas and are purely about the commercialization of Christmas and enjoyment of lights. Hanukkah is "The Festival of Lights", yet... I may never get that one.

I do think stringing up lights during the winter is a fairly nice idea, because the darkness can make people's moods worse. Although I think the stringing up of blinky lights should be stopped. I have a crusade against flashing and flickering lights of all forms. Usually this focuses on bad flourescents (sp sorry lost on the spelling here), but there is one special time of the year where I want to smash people's decorations.