A Jewish child's Christmas memories

I hope you will all forgive me for posting something that is outside this blog's normal fare. I just read this article in the JPost Magazine (where it is not online), ran into our room and asked my wife whether the author used to be our neighbor when we first came to Israel in the early '90's (she was!). When I didn't find the article in the Post, I took another guess and found it here. It turns