Random Poll of the Day! (88)

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With what jewish holidays are you familiar with? (8 votes per user)

Poll runs till May 18th, 2051, 9:35 am

Rosh Hashanah
11
18%
Yom Kippur
13
21%
Sukkot
0
No votes
Hanukkah
19
31%
Purim
1
2%
Passover
15
25%
Lag BaOmer
1
2%
Shavuot
1
2%
 
Total votes: 61
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alicetama wrote:
Kor wrote:
alicetama wrote: Speaking of Passover... I'm now remembering a mean thing that I did to a friend of mine...
You know......from past events that happened so far in the polls, it might be best to talk about the whole thing here (instead of only mentioning it as a btw).
Khinkhun can support this claim  >:D
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Okay... so it happened when I was in the 4th grade during lunch. I usually bring my lunch to school, and that day my mom packed me two homemade chocolate chip cookies.  Both of the cookies were fairly big. I offered a piece to both of my friends, and one of them was Jewish. She said she couldn't have it because it was Passover, and so I... started to torment her with the cookie. It was terrible.
And here goes my idea for a poll tomorrow.

Nah, just kidding. (at least you were a smart one to say it, so you won't have to see people voting to some crazy stuff that you "might have done" to your friend  :))
alicetama wrote: ... Though I don't know if Passover is the holiday when you can't eat certain foods. Is it?
Basically yes. You are not allowed to eat chamez (in short, you're not allowed to eat stuff like bread, cakes, pasta, etc.).
However..........I (as many others) don't follow this tradition (it's actually a "commandment"), since it's silly and unneeded (it's even more idiotic since if you have any sort of chamez at home, you're supposed to burn it before the holiday starts.). I do know though that outside of Israel, non-religious jews are more strict with the traditions than the non-religious jews in Israel, in order to keep their "jewish identity" (which sounds exactly like the way your friend was raised in. Unless she was truly religious and I'm being way off)
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Kor wrote:
alicetama wrote:
Kor wrote:
alicetama wrote: Speaking of Passover... I'm now remembering a mean thing that I did to a friend of mine...
You know......from past events that happened so far in the polls, it might be best to talk about the whole thing here (instead of only mentioning it as a btw).
Khinkhun can support this claim  >:D
\
Okay... so it happened when I was in the 4th grade during lunch. I usually bring my lunch to school, and that day my mom packed me two homemade chocolate chip cookies.  Both of the cookies were fairly big. I offered a piece to both of my friends, and one of them was Jewish. She said she couldn't have it because it was Passover, and so I... started to torment her with the cookie. It was terrible.
And here goes my idea for a poll tomorrow.

Nah, just kidding. (at least you were a smart one to say it, so you won't have to see people voting to some crazy stuff that you "might have done" to your friend  :))
alicetama wrote: ... Though I don't know if Passover is the holiday when you can't eat certain foods. Is it?
Basically yes. You are not allowed to eat chamez (in short, you're not allowed to eat stuff like bread, cakes, pasta, etc.).
However..........I (as many others) don't follow this tradition (it's actually a "commandment"), since it's silly and unneeded (it's even more idiotic since if you have any sort of chamez at home, you're supposed to burn it before the holiday starts.). I do know though that outside of Israel, non-religious jews are more strict with the traditions than the non-religious jews in Israel, in order to keep their "jewish identity" (which sounds exactly like the way your friend was raised in. Unless she was truly religious and I'm being way off)
Then I know what passover is too, I am not good with the English names.
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nomemory wrote: Then I know what passover is too, I am not good with the English names.
I went with Passover for 2 reasons:
1) english-speaking-countries-people would know this name better
2) deciding on which version of the hebrew name (in english letters) would have been impossible for me, since there are so many versions.
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Kor wrote:
nomemory wrote: Then I know what passover is too, I am not good with the English names.
I went with Passover for 2 reasons:
1) english-speaking-countries-people would know this name better
2) deciding on which version of the hebrew name (in english letters) would have been impossible for me, since there are so many versions.
It is my own fault for not checking it up.
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I know 5, since one of my friends is Jewish :P LOL
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I honestly don't know any of these.
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I'm the only one who voted Purim?
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I'm not familiar with any of this...
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Akonyl wrote:
Edogawa4869 wrote: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, & Passover.
same, so I know all the ones anyone knows about apparently :V

almost voted Purim, but I wasn't quite sure if I'd actually heard about it or not.
+1 Not that I know much about them ::)
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