Israeli rabbis warn: Yule be in trouble if you put up Christmas trees

The Christmas tree is a pagan symbol of the winter solstice, that became assimilated into northern European Christianity. I think it insensitive for an Israeli retail establishment or office to display a Christmas tree. That some do so is further evidence of how secular some Israelis are. But keep in mind that Christmas celebrates the birth of a populist Jewish teacher, the greatest renegade rabbi of all time. Yehushua was born a Jew, lived as a proud Jew, and was executed by the Roman imperial authorities as a potential troublemaker. He did not start a rival religion; Saul of Tarsus is to blame for that. His followers made every word of the Tanakh part of the universal human heritage, and that's a lovely thing.

They are coordinating thief crackdowns the Saudi Arabian Imams and religious police.

I am personally in favour of the banning of tree burning. In the age of the first temple trees were held to be the givers of life. After this abominaton which ruined the ecology of the Middle East, the ecology of the Middle East just simply dried up.

Christmas trees are not Christian, by the way, as if that were a secret.

I think the rabbis are afraid of losing there power. By the way Christians do not worship a Christmas tree. No one has ever worshiped a Christmas tree it was a decoration and thats all.

A closed narrow-minded group, that has too much power in Israel.

Amen to this for its about time that Christmas is a ploy of the devil for he always mixes truth with error. God hates idol worship and so should we

THESE backwards shallow myopic rabbis make ISRAELI's INTO HYPOCRICIES...and criminals. shame shame shame

in rome it was saturnalia and gifts were exchanged....actually jesus wasn't really born on dec.25....it was just convenient

Rabbis, are you aware that when God created this world he also created these trees. If for some reason you Rabbis believe that these trees go against the kashrut, then God must be anti-Semitic.

It's a pity the rabbinate has nothing better to do with its time. Christmas trees have no religious significance and penalising businesses that display them merely as seasonal decoration will drive more Jews away instead of consolidating them .

Hey ! What's all the fuss about ?

The Christmas tree is a pagan Germanic symbol taken up by rich German burghers as a decoration in the 18th century. Basically it has nothing to do with the Christian religion.

Christmas trees appear in many Christian churches. In exactly the same way as theajority of the world is blind regarding the Palestinians, the majority of the Christians disregards the fact that the Christmas tree is an ancient false god. As a Christian, I couldn't. agree more with these rabbi's. there shall be no god but Adonai.

it would make life easier and maybe we can get some street food vendors, I want hotdogs on the street!

First of all, the Christmas tree is not any idol, it is just a decoration marking the holidays of your Christian Arab fellow citizens and of the flocks of Christian tourists whom you Israelis need so much.

"Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD". —Leviticus 19:18 Would the learned Council have us here in New York ban the menorah or the dreidel?? These religious symbols are most prevalent here and are seen gladly by the primitive unlearned idol worshiping (non jewish) Volk.