In a 1985 study, journalist Charles Silberman recounted how the writer Anne Roiphe, besieged with angry letters after she wrote an article about celebrating Christmas as a Jew, switched to observing Hanukkah and found it far more meaningful.
Anne Roiphe switched from celebrating Christmas to observing Hanukkah.
The old Japanese proverb says that you can think of splendid things if you have never seen Nikko.