Anonymous
12/24/2025 13:30
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Please - this not a political debate - genuine religious question
One of my Jewish friends posted that people should buy & light menorahs in their window to show love & support for their Jewish friends during Chanukah in light of the Bondi massacre.
I’m a spiritualist and do not follow any organized religion.
Would it be offensive or wrong for a non-Jewish person to have a menorah in the window?
Yes, it would be wrong for you to have and light a menorah if you are not Jewish, intending on becoming Jewish, or have a Jewish family member
Anonymous
12/24/2025 11:53
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
I doubt that's what they meant.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 09:43
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who’s doing this in solidarity and I think it’s lovely.
Whereas in my interfaith household, my spouse vetoed us putting a menorah in the window. They don’t want our house to be a target. I get it, but it also makes me sad. I’d like other Jews walking down the street to feel less alone.
"Interfaith household" is terminology that I hope doesn't exist for too much longer.
What do you mean?
As someone in a household where one is nominally a lapsed Methodist and one is a Jew, it is a weird and woke-patronizing term in my opinion. Analogous to how some view "differently abled." Different PP.
Ah, I thought they were saying they didn’t want there to be marriages between people of different religions.
Anonymous
12/23/2025 18:36
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who’s doing this in solidarity and I think it’s lovely.
Whereas in my interfaith household, my spouse vetoed us putting a menorah in the window. They don’t want our house to be a target. I get it, but it also makes me sad. I’d like other Jews walking down the street to feel less alone.
"Interfaith household" is terminology that I hope doesn't exist for too much longer.
What do you mean?
As someone in a household where one is nominally a lapsed Methodist and one is a Jew, it is a weird and woke-patronizing term in my opinion. Analogous to how some view "differently abled." Different PP.
Anonymous
12/23/2025 14:56
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who’s doing this in solidarity and I think it’s lovely.
Whereas in my interfaith household, my spouse vetoed us putting a menorah in the window. They don’t want our house to be a target. I get it, but it also makes me sad. I’d like other Jews walking down the street to feel less alone.
"Interfaith household" is terminology that I hope doesn't exist for too much longer.
What do you mean?
Anonymous
12/23/2025 14:55
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Before October 7th, I would have been annoyed and felt like it was cultural appropriation. But now... I very much appreciate the solidarity. Please do if you feel so moved. Thank you for caring.
October 7 was an attack on the colonial state of Israel, not Judaism.
It was also an attack on Jews (and on random nationals of other places who just happened to work near Gaza), but I guess you seem to think it was totally justified regardless.
FAFO
So, "be Jewish" = FA? I'm sure you're right that the 10-year-old girl killed in the attack was doing a lot to support the war in Gaza.
Anonymous
12/23/2025 00:57
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Before October 7th, I would have been annoyed and felt like it was cultural appropriation. But now... I very much appreciate the solidarity. Please do if you feel so moved. Thank you for caring.
October 7 was an attack on the colonial state of Israel, not Judaism.
It was also an attack on Jews (and on random nationals of other places who just happened to work near Gaza), but I guess you seem to think it was totally justified regardless.
FAFO
You also okay with Black people who were driven out of their neighborhoods coming into the new trendy buildings and murdering, raping, burning, kidnapping the White gentrifiers? FAFO, right?
Anonymous
12/22/2025 23:42
Subject: Menorah - ok for non-Jew?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who’s doing this in solidarity and I think it’s lovely.
Whereas in my interfaith household, my spouse vetoed us putting a menorah in the window. They don’t want our house to be a target. I get it, but it also makes me sad. I’d like other Jews walking down the street to feel less alone.
"Interfaith household" is terminology that I hope doesn't exist for too much longer.
Care to explain yourself? Because that comment looks awful m
How about "mixed marriage"? That's what they called me and my spouse because we came from different Christian religions.