Frank the LiveJournal goat should celebrate the Jewish Holidays

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Title
Frank the LiveJournal goat should celebrate the Jewish Holidays

Short, concise description of the idea
On the Jewish Holidays Frank the LiveJournal goat should wear a Kippah or better known as a Yamacah. If he can wear a Santa Clause hat during Christmas then he can wear a Kippah during Hunukkah.

Full description of the ideaThat pretty much

Comments

[leora]

Which Jewish holidays? There are a ~lot~ of them. And if you celebrate Channukah and none of the others, then in many ways you are worse than celebrating none. Channukah is a minor holiday. It's not even vital to celebrate it if you're Jewish. It only gets a lot of attention because one time out of the year a bunch of Christians decide to give a token nod to Juadism by pretending to care and mention a holiday they have. But Channukah is not like Christmas. Christmas is a huge holiday in Christianity, one of the most major. A closer parallel to Christmas in Judaism would be Rosh Hashanah or Purim. But how do you pick what to do?

As far as I can tell, LiveJournal celebrates those holidays that have been secularized somewhat. Afterall, Santa Claus is not the spirit of Christmas to a Christian. Santa Claus really represents to most Americans the spirit of Christmas commercialism and fun. It's not like Frank wears a cross for Christmas.

[ursamajor]

well, for purim, frank could totally wear a haman's hat ... no, wait, he's more likely to eat the entire basket of hamantaschen. ;P and admittedly, that's a bit hard to convey in a small icon.

of course, yesterday/today was diwali ... :)

(separately, hyounpark comments over my shoulder that he wants to see frank in hanbok for the korean new year. ;) )

[ruakh]

I totally agree. I really hate when including Khanukah is Christians' obligatory nod to religious diversity, and frankly, I'm quite happy that Judaism's most important holidays have managed to dodge the commercialization of Christianity's holy days. (Are religious Christians actually happy that the day that they believe to be the anniversary of their Savior's resurrection is observed by department stores as the Holiday of the Rabbit with the Technicolor Plastic Eggs?)

Besides, I'd start to question the genuineness of Frank's religious beliefs if he started practicing non-Christian holidays. ;-)

[jai_dit]

I can tell you I'm not, fwiw.

[beginning]

One of my advisors thinks I'm Jewish (long story), and he recently wished me a "Happy Yom Kippur." I think most non-Jews associate all Jewish "holidays" with Fun! and Gifts! and w00t!, and this would kinda only add to that, not to mention be bad for several other reasons.

[conuly]

Y'know, I've tried telling people that about Channukah. They get mad at me....

[leora]

Out of curiousity, Jews or non-Jews? I'm a bit weird in that I was raised Jewish, but don't consider myself Jewish anymore. But enough of my upbringing lingers that the token nod to Channukah while ignoring pretty much every important holiday in Judaism as oh just those things Jews do bugs me.

Good Points

[daurdabla]

Although I don't think it was so much "Christians" giving a nod to Channukah as retailers and marketers.