[Greybird]

Christmas, Merry Christmas, Jesus, Jesus Christ, the Christ child, the Nativity, anything that suggests religiousness will never pass the lips of Hollyweird and the warped politically correct crowd this time of year.

Really, now?

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I just love disproving heedless "universal cases" like this one. Not that this is the most stellar example -- even with my being as a 30-year admirer of Streisand's art, and most emphatically not of most of her politics, I don't even own this CD, at least not for now. Yet I've heard it, and this Jew doesn't at all denigrate what this holiday means -- she does quite the opposite.

Oh, by the way, lady, don't miss Streisand's rendition of Schubert's version of the "Ave Maria," by the way. It's a nice complement to the recording she made of the Gounod version, back in 1967.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I'll be interested in seeing the reply you get to this post! ;-)

[Liz]

So? On at least one of her recodings that I know of, Streisand does a resounding hand-clapping, thigh slapping Negro spiritual (or whatever the PC'ers call these wonderful songs now).

And "Christmas" cards from my Jewish friends are always the first to appear in my mailbox.