Why do Jews not celbrate Christmas?

Answer 1

Jews celebrate a lot of things, in fact, one out of every five days of the year is a Jewish holiday of one sort or another. It just may happen that Jews do not celebrate your holidays or festive occasions.

If there is a particular festive occasion that you had in mind, please resubmit your question asking specifically about that holiday.

Answer 2

Because Christmas is in the New Testament, the part that Christians wrote after the first part of The Bible. Jews only believe in the Old Testament, which Christians also believe in, but not as much.

Answer 3

Jews don't necessarily hate Christmas. They do not celebrate Christmas as Christmas is a Christian holiday, not a Jewish one. Jews instead celebrate Hanukkah, which is a celebration over one week.

Answer 4

First, we should note that Jews believe that Christmas exists; Jews simply ignore Christmas. (I.e. it is not like ghosts, where some people believe that there are ghosts and others believe that there are no ghosts. All Jews believe that Christians do celebrate a holiday on December 25th that they call Christmas.)

Religious Jews ignore Christmas; it is simply not something of any importance to them in much the same way that Christians ignore Hanukkah, Eid al-Adha, or Diwali (which are Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu holidays) because they are not relevant to their tradition. Jews hold that their savior is not yet born, so it would be improper to celebrate the birth of a false Messianic Candidate.

Liberal Jews in Western countries (especially the US), may celebrate certain aspects of Christmas, contrary to Jewish religious teachings. Some of these aspects may include getting a conifer tree, but labeling it a Hanukkah Bush instead of a Christmas Tree, claiming that Santa will visit homes on Hanukkah to provide presents, saying Merry Christmas instead of "Season's Greetings" or some other religion-neutral expression, etc. However, no Jewish family of which I am aware celebrates anything on December 24th or 25th except a customary trip to the local Chinese restaurant. (Again all of these are counter to Jewish religious teachings.) No Jew recognizes the Christian claims about the alleged miraculous events that took place roughly 2000 years ago concerning Jesus, nor celebrates those at Christmas-time.

Answer 5

We DO celebrate. Jewish festivals, Shabbat, births, brit, Bar/Bat mitzva, pidyon haben, etc.See also:

http://judaism.answers.com/jewish-holidays/the-jewish-holidays

http://judaism.answers.com/jewish-philosophy/jewish-life-cycle-brit-bar-mitzvah-wedding-death-and-mourning

Answer 6

no, they dont believe jesus is the Son of God, so his birthday has no meaning to them

Answer 7

Because it is a Christian occasion, not part of Judaism.

Answer 8

It is a Christian holiday.