Comments on: The big questions

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:55:36 +0000

David, thanks for sharing, how cute. It’s not exactly what I was thinking (I was thinking long dangling feet and legs), but quite close. That’s a neat site.

By: david

david — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:27:39 +0000

we should have little personified matzah. They could have facial features and arms and legs. It would resemble SpongeBob SquarePants. How did you come up with such a perfect description of Chabad’s Mr. Matzah without having seen him? http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/

By: Bernard Yomtov

Bernard Yomtov — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:52:05 +0000

How about a frog?

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:07:25 +0000

Morty the Matzah. Works for me.

By: Jeffrey Kramer

Jeffrey Kramer — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:43:11 +0000

We also need a song to compete with “Easter Parade.” I think “Parsley, Sage, Charoseth and Thyme” has a nice ring.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:21:27 +0000

Decnavda, I think what you’re referring to as “secular Christmas” goes back to the Victorians. As for Easter, I would hope that any alternative holiday would include the traditional flogging of the bunny.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:54:27 +0000

Naturally, I’ll advocate joint Jewish-Australian support for the bilby.

By: Decnavda

Decnavda — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 22:18:40 +0000

Actually, the commercialized versions of Christmas and Easter are so comercialized and so reliant on Pagan symbols, I’ve often wondered why Jews DON’T participate. I am an agnostic, and while I still lived in the former Confederacy, I felt somewhat icky and hypocritical participating in these hollidays, because the regious meaning was (and still is, I think) taken very seriously. Now I live in California. The hollidays are just as big, but Jesus is nowhere to be seen, and I have no hypocritical feelings participating in these commercalized pagan rituals. Most Jews I know around here are as secular as I am, so I honestly can’t figgure why there is such a big deal for them not to participate. I mean, wasn’t Secular Christmas practically CREATED by Jewish Hollywood producers in the middle of the last century? So why should they be denied any of the fun? Actually, maybe I should take back most of this, because, thinking more about it, they actually aren’t denied any of the fun, at least in December. Nobody here seems to celebrate “Christmas” anyway, we always celebrate “The Hollidays”. Whatever, it’s all good.

By: Decnavda

Decnavda — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 22:04:16 +0000

Why not just call it the Passover Bunny? Rabbits and eggs were originally symbols of the Pagan spring equinox celebrations. Christians stole them. Why can’t Jews?

By: John Isbell

John Isbell — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:07:17 +0000

I think Elijah would sympathize with the people being lifted into the air. Maybe if we could arrange a fiery chariot.

By: Daniel Geffen

Daniel Geffen — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:59:24 +0000

Wouldn’t the Angel of Death be more appropriate?