http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/isnt-miss-manners-jewish/ I remember reading somewhere that Judith Martin was Jewish; her Wikipedia entry suggests it (nee Perlman.) en-us rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-11-28T;19:56:01-05:00 j_gelb@yahoo.com I disagree with the premise of this column, especially the invocation of Miss Manners (who is indeed Jewish, btw). She would agree that someone in the White House made a large faux pas in sending out Chanukah cards with Christmas symbolism on them. Pointing that out is not necessarily making it symbolic of Bush’s policies on Israel or a lack of cultural sensitivity in general. (I agree that it’s ludicrous to try to make the story bigger than it is.) Someone screwed up in a very noticeable way. Other people noticed the screw-up and reported on it. End of story. I disagree with the premise of this column, especially the invocation of Miss Manners (who is indeed Jewish, btw). She would agree that someone in the White House made a large faux pas in sending out Chanukah cards with Christmas symbolism on them. Pointing that out is not necessarily making it symbolic of Bush’s policies on Israel or a lack of cultural sensitivity in general. (I agree that it’s ludicrous to try to make the story bigger than it is.) Someone screwed up in a very noticeable way. Other people noticed the screw-up and reported on it. End of story.

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