[satch]

why does his parents wish him a merry christmas?

just confused.

[Disney-Bway27]

As far as I know, the Jewish comment in "Tango: Maureen" is only in the movie (I could be wrong, though, because Anthony Rapp said it during RENT10), so his religious orientation is nonspecific in the show.

Also, his mom never specifically says "Merry Christmas", they just say "We'll miss you tomorrow", implying that they would get together for Christmas, but not really specifying. Who knows? Cindy could be getting married that day, or there could be other unrelated event coincidentally happening on Christmas. The Cohens could be atheists for all we know.

So to answer your question: His religion is never specified.

[The Very Angry Woman]

http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/spectator_movie_for_rent_20051118/

[Disney-Bway27]

[ActingDude17]

And just to clarify, the comment in Tango: Maureen is is in the show.

Along with the High Holy Days comment in La Vie Boheme and the fact that Cohen is typically a Jewish surname, we can safely assume Mark is a Jew.

[Disney-Bway27]

Ah, okay. My mistake. :]

[What you own]

http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45933

There a wayyyyyy to many jewish referances to list.

In La Vie Boheme they also recite the Kaddish And his Father saying Mazel Tov. And the Bar Mitzah reference thats said only in the movie.


Theres alot of them... Not to mention the glareing one.... His name.

[broadway_bound92]

I always thought that Mark's mother was Christian, and therefore he celebrated Christmas. Esp since his mother says that his father said Mazel Tov.
I may be wrong, but that was how I took it.[/i]

[raulforpresident]

The way I look at it, Mark is a Jew, raised as such, but he doesn't stick with the holidays. A jew by birth, not practice.

[Adie]

I always presumed he just celebrated Christmas as a holiday with his close friends

[broadwaybirdie]

But his mom's voice is the stereotypical Jewish mother's voice! Its like...my Grandma, but even more.

[What you own]

*Sigh* I have some really intresting things to add to this. Becuase as I said there are just to many Jewish referances to count. But I don't want to sound like a broken record. We have had the discussion before. (See my above post) So I don't want to be kicking a dead horse if you know what I mean.

Wow that sounds so mean. I feel like a post Nazi!! You can not post here! We have already had one. And I made a response to this a long one. But then my computer spazzed and I did not feel like typeing that all over again. Truthfully most of it has been discussed already is the prevois thread.

I'll end with a smiley to let you know I'm not a cruel evil nazi person.

[Mazz]

Everyone has Christmas, it's just a handy name for the midwinter festival all cold-weather dwelling people crave.

[BroadwayObsessed517]

[bittenbythetheatrebug]

[Monsieur D'Arque]

If I remember correctly, Christmas is a bigger deal to New York Jews, as there's a famous secular tradition called "Jew-Christmas" or "Christmastime For The Jews," when the city's social life is entirely Jewish on the day most Christians are out with their families. A longstanding tradition of Jew-Christmas is the eating of Chinese food, since ostensibly the Chinese immigrants working in the restaurant would not close for a holiday they did not celebrate.

It's not a real holiday, but more of a cultural tradition.