History Main / EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', "A Very Glee Christmas" has Rachel predictably 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. Made even worse in later season's Christmas episodes "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" and "Previously Unaired Christmas" where Rachel's Judaism isn't even given a passing mention (nor is Puck's for that matter) and she's all about Christmas. It was at least subverted in season four's "Glee, Actually" where Puck and his brother Jake have an entire sequence about them celebrating Hannukah with their mothers.

* In an early ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode, the aliens tried to figure out what ethnicity they should be, eventually settling on Jewish. Their supposedly being Jewish was occasionally mentioned in subsequent episode, but was not mentioned at all in the Christmas episode.
* Oddly enough, Mike Stivic from ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' enjoyed celebrating Christmas even though he was an out-spoken atheist. His view was that [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus was a good man whose birth was worth celebrating, even if he (Mike) didn't believe that he was actually the Son of God]].

* Lampshaded on ''Series/FridayNightDinner''. The whole premise of the series is about a Jewish family meeting for Sabbath dinner, yet the 2nd season finale is a ChristmasEpisode. Throughout the episode, Adam frequently tells his mother how ridiculous it is that they're having an elaborate Christmas dinner, pointing out it's a Christian celebration for the birth of Jesus, whereas his mother claims it's just a universal holidy (mostly because of its large commercialism). When the rest of the family (reluctantly) turn up, Adam's father's mother (nicknamed Horrible Grandma) actually refuses to call it Christmas dinner, instead claiming it's for Hanukkah.

* In the Norwegian Christmas series ''Jul i Skomakergata'' (Christmas in Shoemaker Street), the main character, shoemaker Jens Petrus Andersen owns a bible. But the only time we see it during the 24 episode long series (and indeed the only time religion is mentioned) is when he picks it up on Christmas Eve to read the Nativity tale to the neighbourhood kids.

* "[[Music/MerryChristmas White Christmas]]", the best-selling single of all time, was written by Music/IrvingBerlin, who was Jewish. So were such composers and/or lyricists as Mel Tormé ("The Christmas Song"), Johnny Marks ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", among other seasonal ditties), J. Fred Coots ("Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"), Walter Kent ("I'll Be Home for Christmas"), Al Stillman ("Home for the Holidays"), Jerry Herman ("We Need a Little Christmas"), George Wyle ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), Felix Bernard ("Winter Wonderland"), Mitchell Parish ("Sleigh Ride"), Ray Evans ("Silver Bells"), and Frank Loesser ("Baby, It's Cold Outside"). Of course, it's worth pointing out that none of these are particularly ''religious''-themed ChristmasSongs, and in fact some of them [[SantaClausmas don't even mention the holiday by name]].

* ''Roleplay/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.

* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has Ginger discover she's part Jewish, and insists on celebrating Chanukah. She's even reluctant to bake Christmas cookies with Dodie because of it. She ultimately decides to throw an 'Even Stevens' holiday party - with both Christmas and Chanukah themes.

* In the western world, major Christian holidays have become so ingrained in the culture that virtually everyone celebrates in some way, if for no other reason than they get time off from work and school. In the United States, 8 out of 10 non-Christans celebrate Christmas in some way,

* Some Muslim-majority countries observe Christmas out of respect to their Christian minorities, and of course to have another excuse to decorate the streets and drum up sales in the stores. Pakistan, Senegal, and Indonesia[[note]]which also formally observes Hindu and Buddhist holidays[[/note]] set up prominent classic Christmas activities like Santa meets and outdoor Christmas trees.

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* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' the cast are all lamenting the fact that Santa isn't coming, when [[TheHero Phineas]] asks [[TheChick Isabella]] if there's a special Christmas gift she's worried about not getting. Despite having participated fully in the ChristmasEpisode so far she admits that her family doesn't celebrate Christmas, so it really doesn't matter to her.

--> Even though we're not Gentile
--> We get together for a while
--> To shoot the breeze
--> And eat Chinese
--> 'Cos Christmas time is here! Oy!

** Invoked on the episode where Lisa becomes a Buddhist ([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E6SheOfLittleFaith "She Of Little Faith"]]). Utilizing the fact that it's Christmas ([[DidIMentionItsChristmas even though this is the episode's first mention of the holiday season]]), the family makes the house as nice as possible and essentially lure Lisa back with presents (Lisa, both because she learns to be more open-minded with other people's religious beliefs and because she wants to get presents, pretty much does).

-->'''Lisa''': Hey, I thought Krusty was Jewish.\\

* In ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'' the Tandy family is Jewish, but the son and daughter-in-law celebrate Christmas to blend in with their Christian neighbors. Miss Daisy visibly winces when her daughter-in-law greets her with a cheery "Merry Christmas".[[/folder]]

* In one ''ComicBook/HarleyAndIvy'' comic ComicBook/HarleyQuinn mentions how the place they're staying is boring and has no presents, despite it being December, and asks if they can at least have a Christmas tree. Her eco-terrorist friend Poison Ivy shuts her down and brings up the fact Harley is Jewish. Harley then states that she likes how bright and colorful Christmas trees are. This scene was used earlier in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' but left out the mention of Harley being Jewish.

* Played incredibly straight in Tom Stoppard's [[{{Theatre/Leopoldstadt}} Leopoldstadt]] . The play opens on a scene of the two interwoven and very Jewish families celebrating Christmas together as a sibling from each family has married a Christian. Includes jokes about one grandson being baptised and circumcised in the same week, and another grandchild putting a Star of David atop of the Christmas tree.

* Played incredibly straight in Tom Stoppard's [[Theatre/Leopoldstadt Leopoldstadt]] . The play opens on a scene of the two interwoven and very Jewish families celebrating Christmas together as a sibling from each family has married a Christian. Includes jokes about one grandson being baptised and circumcised in the same week, and another grandchild putting a Star of David atop of the Christmas tree.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* Played incredibly straight in Tom Stoppard's [[Theatre/Leopoldstadt Leopoldstadt]]. The play opens on a scene of the two interwoven and very Jewish families celebrating Christmas together as a sibling from each family has married a Christian. Includes jokes about one grandson being baptised and circumcised in the same week, and another grandchild putting a Star of David atop of the Christmas tree.

* Played incredibly straight in Tom Stoppard's Theatre/Leopoldstadt. The play opens on a scene of the two interwoven and very Jewish families celebrating Christmas together as a sibling from each family has married a Christian. Includes jokes about one grandson being baptised and circumcised in the same week, and another grandchild putting a Star of David atop of the Christmas tree.

“I don’t mind Christmas because baby Jesus had no idea what was going on, but I feel funny about Easter eggs.”

* While it's not really a Christmas number, the gospel/rock song "Spirit in the Sky" includes lyrics such as "I got a friend in Jesus" and was written by Norman Greenbaum, a Jew who simply liked gospel songs as an art form and wanted to write one.

* "White Christmas", the best-selling single of all time, was written by Music/IrvingBerlin, who was Jewish.
* So were such composers and/or lyricists as Mel Tormé ("The Christmas Song"), Johnny Marks ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", among other seasonal ditties), J. Fred Coots ("Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"), Walter Kent ("I'll Be Home for Christmas"), Al Stillman ("Home for the Holidays"), Jerry Herman ("We Need a Little Christmas"), George Wyle ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), Felix Bernard ("Winter Wonderland"), Mitchell Parish ("Sleigh Ride"), Ray Evans ("Silver Bells"), and Frank Loesser ("Baby, It's Cold Outside"). Of course, it's worth pointing out that none of these are particularly ''religious''-themed Christmas songs, and in fact some of them don't even mention the holiday by name.

* A surprisingly high percentage of the most popular ChristmasSongs were composed by Jewish songwriters. This includes the likes of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", "Let It Snow", "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", "Santa Baby", "Silver Bells", "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", "White Christmas"... and the list goes on. [[note]]Of course, GenreSavvy observers may notice that most of these songs have [[SantaClausmas little to say]] about [[JesusTaboo the birth of Jesus]], but still.[[/note]]

* A surprisingly high percentage of the most popular ChristmasSongs were composed by Jewish songwriters. This includes the likes of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", "Let It Snow", "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", "Santa Baby", "Silver Bells", "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", "White Christmas"... and the list goes on. [[note]]Of course, GenreSavvy observers may notice that most of these songs have [[JesusTaboo little to say]] about [[AwayInAManger the birth of Jesus]], but still.[[/note]]

This could be justified in that many non-Christians socially celebrate Christmas with friends, despite having no ties to the holiday themselves. Also, people already held end-of-the-year festivities centuries before Christ's birth and the Church simply adapted Jesus' birth to that date because these pagan festivities were too popular to simply ignore or surpress.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': The only indication Launchpad is even Jewish is the fact that he wore a Hanukkah sweater to the Duck family's Christmas party, where he's an active participant in Christmas cheer and leads the carol. Then again, this is [[CloudCuckooLander Launchpad]], so maybe he bought the sweater without realizing what it meant.

* In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E11AbedsUncontrollableChristmas Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas]]", Abed mentions that, despite being Muslim, he's always loved Christmas, though it may be more due to memories of Christmas with his mother than the holiday itself.

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', "A Very Glee Christmas" has Rachel predictably 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. Made even worse in later season's Christmas episodes "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" and "Previously Unaired Christmas" where Rachel's Judaism isn't even given a passing mention (nor is Puck's for that matter) and she's all about Christmas.
** It was at least subverted in season four's "Glee, Actually" where Puck and his brother Jake have an entire sequence about them celebrating Hannukah with their mothers.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has Tommy's family celebrating both Hannukah and Christmas.
** {{Justified|Trope}} by the implication that Didi is Jewish but Stu isn't. Sort of {{Inverted}} too, since non-Jewish characters take part in the Hanukkah and Passover specials.
** They also have a Kwanzaa episode where Suzi's family celebrates both Christmas and Kwanzaa. Blended/diverse families seem to be somewhat of a theme with Rugrats.

* Averted (somewhat preachily) in ''Westernanimation/{{Static Shock}}'': In the holiday special for the series, which explores the religious aspects of Christmas, everybody in Virgil's religiously/ethnically-diverse neighbourhood takes part in Christmas celebrations...but also Hannukkah and even Ramadan events.

* In the western world, major Christian holidays have become so ingrained in the culture that virtually everyone celebrates in some way, if for no other reason than they get time off from work and school.

** {{Justified|Trope}} by the implication that Didi is Jewish but Stu isn't. Sort of {{Inverted}}, actually, since non-Jewish characters take part in the Hanukkah and Passover specials.