Jews On Christmas

What do Jews do on Christmas? Well, shortly after college, I'd go skiing, but one year, Christmas was brutally warm and that was out of the question. So, the buddy I'd go skiing with and I started calling Jewish mutual friends and we got together. Thus was born an annual tradition that has persisted for about a quarter century. We used to go to a movie, then Chinese food, then play poker into the evening.

After marriages and kids, we often play DVD's for the kids. Eat together, though because one guy's family keeps kosher, we usually bring the food (at his house, we can have Chinese, as there's a kosher Chinese restaurant nearby). We still try to play poker (for some reason, "night baseball" is a popular variant).

This year, due to one participant's travel plans, we have, for the first time ever, we're not having the party on Christmas day.