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

[trbleclef]

On the Jewish Holidays Frank the LiveJournal goat should wear a Kippah or better known as a Yamacah.

Yarmulke. I also don't think it would be particularly appropriate for a goat to wear one, since I would estimate most goats aren't aware of the symbology of it.

[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.

[curvature]

Are you also advocating that he be dressed up for other events?
What about the Hindi/Buddhist/Muslim/Wiccan events?
What about the various New Years celebrated by various cultures with their own calendars?

There gets a point where every day would be a day that Frank needs to be dressed up in something else not to mention the number of days that would clash and he'd be in a huge hodgepodge of accessories.

I think just the fact that they dress him up at all is cool, without getting too nitpicky and equal rights about the whole thing.

[spatulistic]

Hey, if Google does it .. why can't Frank too?

And for the record - YES! Let's have Frank dress up in lots of things. I'm open :)

[asciident]

The difference is that Google only celebrates a few things a year - not everything. And they have a full-time graphic-design employee for logo changing. :)

(Which is to say I'm not opposed to Frank being multicultural but there has to be some guidelines or veroz (or whoever) is going to spend too much time making over Frank!)

[elfy]

And they have a full-time graphic-design employee for logo changing. :)

I want to have that job.

[onthefloor]

Feel the Jewish Love!

[anotherdream]

Frank shouldn't celebrate any religious holidays of any faith.

[anotherdream]

I would say that using a US federal holidays list is also problematic, because while LiveJournal *is* a US-based company, the userbase is very much international. Things like independence day, Columbus day, Washington's birthday... they hold no signifigance whatsoever to a large percentage of the userbase.