1. The whole world is really weird for Jews around Christmas.
2. It seems like everyone else becomes obsessed with being festive.
3. As soon as it's December, everyone starts stressing out about Christmas shopping.
4. And then are the weird Christmas songs.
5. And somehow novelty socks become work appropriate
6. And we just don't get it.
7. So we spend the festive season trying to explain that whatever The O.C. says, Christmukkah is not a thing.
8. And neither is the holiday armadillo.
9. But what we do have is Chanukah.
10. So we spend a lot of time trying to work out how to turn dreidel into a drinking game.
11. We eat loads of greasy food.
12. And then we light a bunch of candles. That's literally it.
13. At our office Christmas parties, we inevitably end up trying to explain that Jesus was a Jew.
14. Of course, being Jewish at Christmas means being able to take advantage of cheap Christmas Day flights.
15. Lots of us enter the alternate universe of Limmud, where Rabbis are rockstars and socks and sandals rule.
16. If we opt to stay in town over the festive period, we end up celebrating Christmas Eve by going to a super-club with 2,000 other Jews.
17. And for Christmas lunch, we eat a kosher turkey.
18. In the evening, we watch Christmas TV and point out that everyone on it is in some way Jewish.
