I just didn’t understand how you knew that a majority of board posters wished to keep the smiley. I wasn’t trying to be cute, smart-assed, or otherwise snarky. It was a declarative statement(question), with no hidden overtones.
I personally don’t care if it stays or goes. I don’t have a very strong opinion.
Just judging by what I see in this thread, in which only a couple posters have actually come out in favor of this. How about TubaDiva come up with some evidence that this is actually a “contentious” matter and that more than one or two people are offended?
The dude’s fun. It’s delightfully random to have a smiley devoted to Orthodox Judaism. Why remove it?
I always looked upon Happy Orthodox Jewish Man with fondness, not disdain.
Oh, well.
I propose we get rid of all smilies, and replace them with a single one.
A TubaDiva smiley.
The icon design is obvious. 
I’ll go on record for supporting the re-establishment of the Jewish smiley. Dexter’s reasoning smacks of sickening political correctness, demanding that anything specific be removed to avoid offending the generalized masses. Frankly, fuck the masses. The masses can get their own god-damned message boards.
With Blackjack, and Hookers! In fact, forget the message boards! 
I don’t really care one way or another about the two excised smilies, but you can have my rolleyes when you pry it from my cold, dead keyboard!
On second thought…
First they came for the Orthodox Jewish smilies, and I did not speak out, for I was not an Orthodox Jewish smilie…
I’ll cast my vote to bring him back! And he needs a shorter name. Can we call him Bernie?
I liked the little guy. To me, he looked like the lead singer from the Spin Doctors.
I… got a pocket full of … kryptonite, yeah!
Has anybody actually confirmed the death of the Wally smiley?
Perhaps a brand-new smiley will be added to the board just for the fact of telling us that the Wally is no longer around.
Wally is still alive and well, it’s just the smiley that’s dead.
Perhaps you’ve made Dex’s argument for him. The Jewish smiley used the characteristics of a small subset of a population (the Hasadim) to represent the entire population (all Jews). I believe that’s the definition of a stereotype and exactly what Dex’s example was meant to demonstrate.
I don’t care much about the Jewish smiley, since I can’t imagine ever using it. I do agree with getting rid of Wally, though. Making that smiley was a great tribute when it began, but that obviously isn’t appropriate after all. And it was used incorrectly far too often to be worth the trouble.
How can we tell him apart from the smiling Chinaman?
I still think we need two more smileys to replace the ones lost, to complete the set. One I’d like to have is the halo, a smiley often used to jokingly feign innocence.
And a ZOMBIE smiley might help mark ZOMBIE thread without getting people’s panties in a twist.
I think people would rather complain than have the “problem” solved.
I still want the “he’s crazy” smiley (finger rotating around at the temple).