“This is the first time I’ve put a Christmas tree in the house,” he said. Alan Tacher, host of “Despierta América” to EL UNIVERSAL. And is that he is Jewish, but his wife, Cristy Bernal, is Catholic, so every year during these holidays Cristy traveled to Monterrey to celebrate these holidays with his family and his two small children, while Alan had to work, however, the pandemic It freed Alan these days and Cristy couldn’t travel so they decided to share both beliefs at home.
“I’m Jewish and don’t celebrate Christmas as such, so my wife, who is a Catholic – I convince her little by little, but it takes me some work – in the week it was Hanukkah (from 10 to 18 December), we celebrate together, we give the children little by little presents, we have a tree, I had never set up a Christmas tree in my life because I did not celebrate, as a child they invited me to Friends’ houses to celebrate and I was happy, this is the first time there is a Christmas tree at home and we will see if Santa Claus comes, we will pretend they were there (in Monterrey) ”.
The couple have managed to strike a middle ground in terms of their beliefs, and the television host has assured that they want to keep doing that so that their two young children know both cultures.
“The Hanukkah celebration takes place in eight days and you make little presents, we bring this to them and they already know Christmas from school, for now we leave them like that, they have these two religions with their variations, but if I do please ask, I would like my children to be inclined to Judaism, she has no problem, but we also want them to have a choice ”.
This year hasn’t been easy for them as they went through a hard streak of Covid, which they say even left them with sequels.
“Yes, the truth is we did have sequels, maybe less now because it happened to us in July, but we did have sequels. I had a lot of insomnia after Covid gave us, I couldn’t sleep, I stayed up at night without knowing what was happening, for me that was the most important thing. But to my wife it seems unbelievable but true, and it is that after so many months the issue of taste and smell sometimes leaves her ”.
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