Does using blue and silver bows on a wreath represent Jewish beliefs?
Well, the whole concept of a wreath doesn’t represent Jewish beliefs, nor does disguising Christmas decorations to look “more Jewish,” but the truth is that many people want to do some kind of decoration so their homes don’t look so bare when other people’s are festively decorated. So they’ll use blue and white (colors of Israel’s flag) or blue and silver, which is almost the same, in holiday decorations and call them Hanukkah decorations. Another thing people do is use those colors, rather than Christmas’s red and green, on Hanukkah gifts that have been wrapped. Of course, a wreath is actually derived from pagan solstice festivals, so even the Christian wreaths are (like so many things in various religions) pagan items that have been converted to fit with the religion’s beliefs. To get people to accept non-pagan religions, sometimes pagan customs were kept with a little adaptation to make the new religion more familiar and thus appealing. Example: Christmas and Hanukkah “lights” deriv
