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** {{Justified}} by the implication that Didi is Jewish but Stu isn't.

* In one Christmas episode of ''{{House}}'', someone had to remind Wilson that he's Jewish. It didn't stop him from celebrating Christmas with vocal atheist House.

* ''BillyAndMandy'' spends its whole ChristmasEpisode with [[RalphWiggum Billy]] an obsessed lover of Christmas, only to offhandedly mention in TheStinger that he actually celebrates Hanukkah.

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* Depending on country or location, it may not be uncommon for both non-religious people and non-Christians to also celebrate Christmas.
** Non-religious people often say they are taking Christmas back. It was originally a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, co-opted by the church for easier conversion. The same goes for Easter.

** I think that Abed had been confirmed earlier as coming of more than one religion in ethnic descent, what with the speaking of polish and so on, and that it's some form of Actor Allusion.

* The "Secret Santa" episode of ''{{Warehouse 13}}'' puts a dreidel by the name of Saul Rubinek (the actor playing Artie) in the credits, and Claudia does give a Jewish prayer at the end of the episode. But most of Artie and Claudia's plotline in the episode revolves around the Christmas present she is trying to get him (which ends up being both a musical instrument and a reunion with his father).

** Given that BarbraStreisand, Neil Diamond, and other Jewish performers have performed Christmas songs (this troper's mother has a "Jews Sing the Holy Songs" CD collection), Rachel's position seems pretty in-character: nothing gets between her and a performance.

* ''{{House}}'' has shown House and Wilson celebrating Christmas at least once, although the former is a HollywoodAtheist and the latter is Jewish in a slightly-more-than-[[InformedJudaism informed]] way. Cuddy is also Jewish, and, correct me if I'm wrong, has also been shown participating in some sort of Christmas festivities.

** Given that Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, and other Jewish performers have performed Christmas songs (this troper's mother has a "Jews Sing the Holy Songs" CD collection), Rachel's position seems pretty in-character: nothing gets between her and a performance.

* Pretty much every show in the early days of television had an elaborate Christmas episode, with Christmas carols and everything. This can sometimes seem weird with obviously Jewish comedians like Eddie Cantor. When you think about it, it seems odd even with less stereotypical Jewish comedians, like Jack Benny and George Burns (he was Jewish, but Gracie Allen was Catholic).
* DCNation works with this yearly with the annual compromise at the Dibny household. Ralph gets to decorate (copious amounts of purple are involved), and he gets to be a big, stretchy kid. (This has been amplified since their daughter came into the picture) Topping the tree is a "only a good idea in the 50's" electric menorah with bright purple lights. Sue just stands back and lets him because she thinks it's side-splittingly funny to watch her hubby and daughter literally bounce around the house.

->''"The only reason you'd need to come up with a universal, secularized, entirely inoffensive version of Christmas that is really about telling the people you love that you love them is that the actual, Christian version of Christmas is so firmly entrenched in your culture that it can never be removed, and the only way to accommodate the people in your society who don't celebrate it is to turn it into something it isn't"''

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->''"The only reason you'd need to come up with a universal, secularized, entirely inoffensive version of Christmas that is really about telling the people you love that you love them is that the actual, Christian version of Christmas is so firmly entrenched in your culture that it can never be removed, and the only way to accommodate the people in your society who don't celebrate it is to turn it into something it isn't"'' [[http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2010/12/bah-humbug-on-community-s-christmas.html --Abigail Nussbaum]]

Shows that have characters who are [[InformedJudaism conspicuously Jewish]] (or some other non-Christian religion) the rest of the year, usually flat out ignore this fact during the required ChristmasEpisode, or barely mention it in a very token sort of way. SantaClausmas comes up frequently.

* {{Community}} has both subverted and played this trope straight. In the show's first season episode, "Comparative Religion," it was revealed that every single one of the study group members practiced a different religion or was agnostic/atheist, and they all came together to celebrate their differences. In the second season episode "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas", on the other hand, it was [[RetCon RetConned]] that both Annie (previously Jewish) and Abed (previously Muslim) were half Christian, and the entire episode was about celebrating Christmas. Everyone else's religious differences were totally ignored.
* On {{Glee}}, "A Very Glee Christmas" has Rachel tokenly mention her Jewishness as a reason for why she doesn't normally give Christmas presents, but dressing up, decking the halls, and singing Christmas carols, on the other hand, are totally fine. Puck, who also likes to conspicuously mention his Judaism, never says anything about it in the episode.
* The "Secret Santa" episode of {{Warehouse13}} puts a dreidel by Saul Rubinek (the actor playing Artie)'s name in the credits, and Claudia does give a Jewish prayer at the end of the episode. But most of Artie and Claudia's plotline in the episode revolves around the Christmas present she is trying to get him (which ends up being both a musical instrument and a reunion with his father).
* TheNanny, a show that had a Jewish main character, and her Jewishness came up in most episodes, had an animated Christmas special.
* On BuffyTheVampireSlayer, Willow once mentions that her dad didn't like her watching Christmas specials on television and she had to sneak over to Xander's house to do it.

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