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What is the Jewish version of "Secret Santa?"?
What is the Jewish version of "Secret Santa?"?
I'm hosting a "Secret Santa" event for a group that includes a significant number of Jewish people.
How can I title the game so as to make it appropriate for the group?
(I have seen Yahoo Answers dealing with this issue before, but the chosen answer was "still use Secret Santa" which isn't very helpful, as one of the Jewish participants I asked said that he would be offended by the title.)
Answers:
Natasha: You could always just call it Secret Buddy or something not religious at all.
2009-12-09 18:11:17
2009-12-09 18:11:17
JustJoe: Santa is not a religious figure but you don't have to give gifts in the Secret Santa way (to a specific person) either.
You can have everyone bring in a gift and put them on a table; then make little "tickets" numbered with however many people are participating/gifts there are (say 12 people, so 12 tickets numbered 1 - 12).
Then have everyone pick one ticket/number out of a bowl.
The person with ticket numbered 1 gets to pick a gift from the table and open it for everyone to see;
Then person with ticket #2 gets to pick one off the table and either keeps it or gives it to the other person and takes theirs instead (but must do it without knowing whats inside the one they took off the table).
Keep doing that until everyone has a present - the higher the number you get, the luckier you are because you get to choose from more of the opened gifts and can pick what you want; the lower the number you get the fewer choices you get (and poor #1 gets no choice at all!).
We've been doing this for years at work and its actually pretty fun, especially when something "desirable" keeps getting taken from people.
Good Luck with whatever you do
J
2009-12-09 19:19:52
2009-12-09 19:19:52