Hey Levite, one of my Jewish friends has his name tattooed across his back in Hebrew. He always says that whenever he dies they'll just cut it off before placing him in a Jewish cemetery. Perhaps you should give that star a second thought.
I've got 2 tattoos that I'm really proud of because I put over a year into deciding exactly what I wanted and where I wanted it. The stigmas aren't nearly as rigid as they used to be so if you find something that you think you can commit to - why not?
In a few weeks I'll have something based upon this covering the upper half of my left arm:
(not all album covers are stupid)