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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a few fairly religious Jewish friends who regularly ask folks to share the list of high holidays so people don’t schedule important meetings in those days.  I think tagging people is a bit much on holiday good wishes but tbf I almost never tag people and rarely post on social media at all so my normalcy calibration might be off.  I do see your point about making assumptions about people’s religion, though.  If any of these are close friends you can maybe mention it to them another time that it feels odd to be wished greetings as part of a blanket statement without any personal calibration?  If acquaintances, I would probably mute them; maybe if their posts get little enough engagement they’ll stop?[/quote]

I am not close enough with either of them to say anything - and honestly I'm not even sure what I'd say. I don't have an argument for NOT doing this - it just feels off to me. There's nothing I can point to and say, "you shouldn't do this and here's why" - I just feel like it's a weird thing to have non-Jews posting about Jewish holidays, and presuming to share some expertise.

The thing my friend shred about the holidays was originally put up by someone who went to a Lutheran theology school (I see in his profile) then got shared something like 4,000 times. It's not objectionable in content - it just feels weird for someone who is a Christian to be holding himself up as an expert in how to be considerate to the Jews around their holidays (which obviously we can't presume anyone is already familiar with since of course Jews are other and exotic). It feels weird is all![/quote]

I’m the PP.  I do get the weirdness — putting your friends’ Jewishness before who they are as a person it sounds like you’re saying?  And compounded by cultural appropriation vibes; I think it’s great for lutherans to be aware of Jewish holidays (for the professional disadvantage reasons I’ve listed above) and polite about but ideally they should share this information from Jewish sources.  But yeah unless they’re really good friends, getting in an internet debate about it would probably be an exercise in frustration hence my suggestion of muting.  Social media algorithms thrive on negative engagement so I’m a big fan of trying redirect all my irritation into not engaging.[/quote]

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