This is my 18th holiday season covering arts and attractions for Orlando Weekly, and since 18 (or “chai”) is an important symbol in Hebrew numerology, I was inspired to look back at one of my earliest columns from 2006 about being, in the immortal words of Kyle Broflovski, a “lonely Jew on Christmas.” Although it brought a nostalgic tear to my eye rereading blurbs about much-missed Yuletide traditions like Theatre Downtown’s Christmas Carol and Disney’s Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights, my old musings about secular assimilation seem sadly naive in light of this past year’s events. For starters, the me of 2006 could never have imagined that literal Nazis would be regularly rallying against Jews — and for Florida’s governor — on Disney’s doorstep.