The first and only time that Alex Edelman's family celebrated Christmas, their tree was topped not by a star, but a teddy bear wearing a yarmulke.Mr. Edelman, who was 7 or 8 at the time he doesn't remember the exact year was also wearing a yarmulke.All of his male family members were.Mr. Edelman, 33, grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home in Brookline, Mass., and he says his family's one-night fling with Christmas, which he chronicled with withering precision in his recent Off Broadway comedy show Just For Us, was a thoroughly Jewish endeavor.
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