{"id":697,"date":"2015-01-11T22:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2015-01-11T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:27:18","slug":"is-it-right-for-shops-to-promote-sales-of-kosher-turkeys-and-festive-puddings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/reform\/is-it-right-for-shops-to-promote-sales-of-kosher-turkeys-and-festive-puddings\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it right for shops to promote sales of kosher turkeys and \u2018festive puddings\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you are Jewish and you have your mind set on eating turkey or a \u2018festive pudding\u2019 at this time of the year, you\u2019d better eat a kosher one! And if there is a demand for it (as there apparently is), why shouldn\u2019t shops promote them?<\/p>\n<p>Most people do not regard eating \u2018festive puddings\u2019 or a turkey at Christmas as an expression of being Christian but as a cultural affirmation of being English; it is what people eat over here at this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Influences from other cultures often help to strengthen our own identity, rather than weaken it. For example the giving of presents (instead of Chanukah gelt) during Chanukah, clearly been influenced by present giving at Christmas. Synagogue services are often better attended on \u2018Shabbat Christmas\u2019 than other Shabbatot, not because our members believe the day to be any special, but somehow they feel a need to affirm their Jewishness on such an obviously Christian day. Thus, eating a kosher turkey or a \u2018festive pudding\u2019 may be to some the ultimate expression of being Jewish in a non-Jewish world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you are Jewish and you have your mind set on eating turkey or a \u2018festive pudding\u2019 at this time of the year, you\u2019d better eat a kosher one! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":392,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-noslider-130.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}