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15px 30px;">Well, this answers a question for me. Dan Drezner
describes the <a href="" target="_blank">standard Jewish ritual
for Christmas day:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Chinese food and a
movie. Perfectly pleasant rituals, made special by the fact that
<em>the Gentiles are all at home or at church</em>....</p> <p>No
longer.</p> <p>I don&rsquo;t know when it became a thing for
Christian families to also go see a movie on the day
commemorating the birth of Jesus, <strong>but personal
experience tells me this is a relatively recent
phenomenon&nbsp;&mdash; i.e., the past 15 years or so.</strong>
All I know is that what used to be a pleasant movie-going
experience is now extremely crowd