Do you feel it is wrong? Just curious no bashing intended.
Personally, I don't have any issue with it so long as the perspective is on Christ and one doesn't get caught up in aspects of it that are not supported within the scriptures. And I enjoy fellowshipping with other believers, be it Jew or Gentile, who take the time to use the Holiday as a means of rememebering what Yeshua is about.
For some Jews, celebrating Christmas is something that should never be done because it was not one of the Biblically ordained holidays within the Torah (even though Purim and Chanakuh were also not ordained in the Torah as Festivals and yet are still celebrated)....whereas others celebrate Christmas alongside the Festivals because the Holiday in/of itself was not something that is sin so long as the focus is upon celebrating Christ being brought into the world---while simultaneously avoiding many of the other trappings that are secular in nature (i.e. focusing on Santa Clause/Elves, gifts for the sake of getting gifts, etc) and take the focus off of the Messiah.
Many have a focus that the Holidays are to be a time where gift giving should be done in light of what Christ has done for us in giving Himself--the ULTIMATE gift---for all of mankind.....and I have much respect for those using the holidays to give gifts/resources to the less fortunate or use it as a time to correct others on the myth of Santa Clause by examining the ways that figure was wrongly created by making a caricature of St.Nicolas (a wonderful man of God who loved the Messiah and gave greatly of his wealth to help people stuck in human trafficking) More
discussed here..and there was actually another excellent discussion on the subject of how Jewish believers feel on the issue of Christmas, as seen in the thread
Christmas and the Jew (more shared
here ).
Generally speaking, Messianic Jews do not celebrate Christmas. And there is no place in the
Scriptures that commands us to celebrate the Birth of the Messiah. We're to do all that we come to in honor of Him/His work ( 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:16-18 /Colossians 3, 2 Timothy 2:8/2 Timothy 2:7-9 )---remembering His death and where He came from (all apart of the work of the Incarnation). That said, apparently, none of the early believers, Jewish or Gentile, celebrated these Christmas, as there is no mention of it in the Brit Hadasha (New Covenant). That does not mean that Messianic Jews are universally against Christmas (Rom. 14). During the Christmas season, many synagouges do not have Christmas trees, give gifts or have Christmas parties. At the same time, others may rejoice with people throughout the world on celebrating the fact that a Savior was born.
To many, the reality is that everyday has things done on it by unbelievers that the Lord has never ordained of, with even the very days of the week (i.e. Thursday, Friday, Wensday, etc) being named after pagan gods/goddesses from antiquity......and yet believers don't chose to avoid celebrating who the Lord is on those days or choose to go hiding because the world wants to use days for corruption.
Seeing how both Jews and Gentiles were both involved in the celebration of the Messiah's birth---from the shepherds to the Wisemen/Magi (noted by some to be from either Persia, Southern Arabia or the Parthian Empire, Jews and Gentiles both involved) to the hometown that Joseph/Mary birthed Christ into---it's one of the few things I'm glad shows the unity which Christ happened to bring coming into the world. For His birth was for both Jew and Gentile.....and although there's nothing in scripture commanding that it be celebrated on a certain day, there's nothing wrong with celebrating it in remembrance or even using the times where it is more of a focus to speak of Him.
If interested, there was very in-depth discussion happening elsewhere with one of the Messianic Forums I visit where there was some very insighful conversation happening on the subject of the holidays (as seen
here,
here ,
here here ,
here ,
here and
here). I'm thankful to be in close relationship with other Messianic Jews who are passionate about celebrating the Birth of the Messiah around the Holidays and yet choosing not to think that one has to celebrate Christmas the way many believers chose to do. For those Jewish believers, although they're not against believers celebrating Christmas to the glory of Messiah, Chanakuh is what takes precedence over Christmas/surrounding it with the Jewish perspective of God's temple being redicated and Christ being the Light of God (as He noted around the same time the Holiday took place in John 10 when questioned). I love the fact that the Festival of Lights occurs in the winter just as Christmas does---and it's cool being able to celebrate one aspect of Biblical history when the Lord preserved His people/kept the light going while also being able to celebrate another aspect which is His birth--the Light of the World coming forth (
John 1:8-10 , J
John 3:18-20 ,
John 8:11-13 ,
John 9:4-6,
John 12:45-47 , etc) and becoming incarnated as a man to redeem mankind....and with the latter holiday, the fact that Christ wasn't technically born during December doesn't change the fact that the concept of what He did in being born is worth celebrating
Back when
Sukkot was occurring, one of the members of my Messianic fellowship sent out an interesting article on possible considerations of when Christ was born (seen
here)--and it made sense that He would come into the world during the Feast of Tabernacles, as He literally tabernacled with us. In many ways, the Festivals are road-maps to the work of the Messiah....and thus, anyone dogmatically saying that CHrist had to be born in December needs to go back/consider doing some more research on the facts. But again, even if Christ was not technically born in December, the reality is that His birth is what's celebrated....and that's something I'm always glad to join in and be apart of.
Messianic Derek Leman had some excellent studies/articles on the subject, as seen in the following:
Additionally,there were some good articles/reviews I remember coming across with my Messianic brothers/sisters over at "The Rosh Pina Project"--as seen here:
Additionally, Messianic Jewish Apologist, Dr.Michael Brown, also had some excellent thoughts on the subject--as
seen here. And in addition to that, there was some excellent discussion from "Biblical Archeology" on why people came to feel Christ was born around the time of December....as seen in
How December 25 Became Christmas - Biblical Archeology Review. There are a lot of times when it seems many take things to extremes that are not warranted on the Holidays. And as another Jewish believer well noted, IMHO:
I have yet to meet a Christian that "defends Christmas" based on scripture or dogma. It's just a holiday. It's a chance to celebrate something important in history- to Christians a most important event. It's just a day set aside for that. I don't think any serious scholar thinks Dec 25th is Jesus' birthday (nor is sukkot seriously considered for that matter, though it preaches well to this crowd).
As for the paranoia and fear ascribed to the date Dec 25th or to having a tree with decorations etc- I wonder what people are afraid of. Demons in the tinsel? Almost every day of the year could be attached to some kind of pre-Christian celebration in some part of the planet. God redeems sin and sinners, so dates on the calendar is not too big a task for him, and it is up to us to make those times holy- "redeem the times". What's more, if you are that afraid of paganism- what on earth do you think of some of the Laws and holidays in the Torah? Piles of it is pre-dated by pagan Egypt and Canaan.
Further, all this talk of "The Lord's Feasts/festivals/times" is a bit of psycho-babble to me. They are holidays for ISREAL. God doesn't need days off to remember things, but He gave them to the Jewish people so we could remember what He did for us. They were not given as a law for Gentiles to follow. They come from the Lord, but they belong to the Jewish people. Can we please own them?
Why are there so many self-hating Gentiles?
Oh I was raised Apostolic 
