On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Met History describes an astonishingly idyllic
holiday, and asks:

> No one else from BP is up at 10:45 PM Christmas eve?

We Jews had our winter holiday earlier.  I'm busy programming, on a Friday
night, which shows that I'm not shomer shabbes.

Actually, we went to a Reconstructionist service earlier this evening,
held at the JCC since the Ann Arbor Reconstructionists are too small to
have their own building or rabbi.  At the conclusion of the service, after
kaddish, they startled us by singing Adon Olam (or similar song, I forget
which) to the tune of Jingle Bells, referred to as "a secular winter
song".

Afterward, everyone went out for the Chinese dinner which is a Jewish
tradition this time of year.

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