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Offline JewJitsu

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Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« on: December 26, 2013, 10:38:44 AM »
Is it halachically permissible for a Torah Orthodox Jew to attend a Kwanzaa celebration?
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2013, 10:53:25 AM »
Why would you want to?
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2013, 11:02:50 AM »
I want to be multicultural and diverse.  It makes me kvell with nachus.  :dance:
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2013, 11:09:08 AM »
Finally it be Kwanzaa!!!!

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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2013, 11:12:32 AM »
It is a made up holiday made up by Afro-centric negroes to make themselves feel like they had something different & unique & was created in the late 60's
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2013, 11:13:04 AM »
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Offline Zelhar

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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2013, 05:52:12 PM »
I think if the descendants of African slaves want to celebrate their release from bondage and their freedom that's legitimate but then why would they make it look like a mockery of Hanukkah and Christmas?
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2013, 02:35:10 AM »
Quote from: Zelhar on December 26, 2013, 05:52:12 PM
I think if the descendants of African slaves want to celebrate their release from bondage and their freedom that's legitimate but then why would they make it look like a mockery of Hanukkah and Christmas?
Because, quite frankly, they're meshuggah. 
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2013, 04:37:46 AM »
Why don't they celebrate Dingaan's Day like they did in South Africa before the blacks took over.
Dingaan was Shaka Zulu's brother,Dingaan killed Shaka Zulu & became king & in honor of the defeat of Shaka they celebrated Dingaan's Day for years until Mandela took over.
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2013, 08:49:11 AM »
Don't forget your kenorah. 
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2013, 10:13:40 AM »
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2013, 12:47:54 PM »
Kwanza is money used in Angola.
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2013, 04:16:09 PM »
Quote from: JewJitsu on December 26, 2013, 10:38:44 AM
Is it halachically permissible for a Torah Orthodox Jew to attend a Kwanzaa celebration?

I take it this is a joke?
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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2013, 04:30:54 PM »
Quote from: JewJitsu on December 26, 2013, 10:38:44 AM
Is it halachically permissible for a Torah Orthodox Jew to attend a Kwanzaa celebration?

I am not sure what the Halacha is on this... Is it is religious holiday? If it is and it worships a false deity we are most certainly forbidden from engaging in any of the rituals involved with it. If it is a secular day there may be lenient opinions which allow us (as in the case of Thanksgiving). I know nothing about this invented 'holiday'. It is not Jewish so I may invoke the concept of the Torah forbidding us from following the ways of the non-Jews (do not emulate the ways of the nations)...



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Re: Today is the first day of Kwanzaa
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2013, 05:30:18 PM »
Quote from: Spiraling Leopard on December 27, 2013, 12:47:54 PM
Kwanza is money used in Angola.

Really? I didn't know.

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