Primrose Road

When I was a child, my Catholic cousins rather innocently explained to me that the reason I didn't get presents from Santa Claus was that Santa skipped over all of the Jewish kids' houses. After that, I received one gift from "Santa" under the menorah every year because my parents feared that I would otherwise believe that Jolly Old St. Nick was anti-Semitic.

Tonight, while looking at the Norad Santa Tracker, I notice that while Santa has been to much of the North Caucasus and Middle East (including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, and Oman), he has clearly avoided Israel. Thus, we can only conclude that Santa does indeed skip over all the Jewish kids' houses.

(Meanwhile, SigOther wonders why Santa is only stopping for three minutes at a time in Southern Hemisphere cities, where he should be sitting out in the sun and getting a tan. SigOther's goal is to someday have a Chanukah beach party in Australia; he lived in Boston during Boston's coldest winter ever and now vehemently crusades against winter.)

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all! Take good care of yourselves, kinderlekh. :)