“This is the first time I’ve planted a Christmas tree at home,” he said Alan tacher, Conductor of “Desperta América” at EL UNIVERSAL. And it is that he is Jewish, but his wife, Cristy Bernal, Catholic, so every year, in these holidays, Cristy traveled to Monterrey to celebrate with his family and his two young children these holidays, while Alan it was time to work, however, the pandemic made Alan free these days and Cristy unable to travel, so they decided to share the two beliefs at home.
“I’m Jewish and I don’t celebrate Christmas as such, so my wife, who is Catholic – I’m slowly convincing her but it’s costing me hard work – in the week that was Hanukkah (December 10-18), we celebrate it together, we are giving presents to children little by little, we have a tree, I had never in my life put a Christmas tree because I did not celebrate it, of boy I was invited to friends houses to celebrate and I was going happy, now is the first time there is a Christmas tree at home and we will see if Santa comes, we will do it as if they were there (in Monterrey) “.
The couple has managed to find a middle ground in terms of their beliefs, and the TV presenter assured that they want to continue to do so so that their two young children know the two cultures.
“The Hanukkah festival is held in eight days and you make small gifts, we instill this in them and they already know Christmas by school, for the first time we leave them like this, let these two religions have their variants, but if you ask me, I would like my children to bow to Judaism, she has no problem but we also want them to have the option to decide. “
This year has not been easy for them, as they went through a tough streak of Covid, which even, they say, left them with sequels.
“Yes, the truth is that we did have sequelae, maybe less now because it happened to us in July, but we did have sequelae. I was very insomniac after Covid gave us, I couldn’t sleep, I I was awake at night not knowing what was going on, for me that was the most important thing, but to my wife, it seems incredible but true and is that after so many months, sometimes the question of taste and smell. “
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