Updated
Dec 24, 2020
The Peculiar Case Of Jewish Christmas Movies
Over the last two years, Hallmark and Lifetime have attempted to integrate Jews into their holiday romance fare with mixed results.
By Emma Gray
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Hallmark/Lifetime
It starts out like so many prototypical made-for-television Christmas movies do: with a beautiful woman in a tailored, red peacoat.
She walks into a store bedazzled in Christmas cheer. Her eyes open widely in joy as she purchases not one, not two, not three, but FOUR holly-covered wreaths. It’s the one she likes, the one she always buys for the windows of her Italian restaurant in Cleveland. This is, as she explains to a colleague who walks into a low-key culinary Santa’s workshop outpost, her first Christmas without her mother. Decorating with an abundance of tinsel garlands is just how she cheers herself up.