Posted on 10/10/2010 1:15:03 PM PDT by PROCON
Cambridge to start observance in 2011-12 As a Muslim and a high school senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 17-year-old Dunia Kassay faces a tough choice every year on Islamic holy days: go to school or stay home to be with family and friends.
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Again, it was really easy to look up their calendar and find out.
Well, there are only 365 choices to recognize everything and everyone throughout world history... Hmmm...lets be oh so sensitive and also fuss about how American kids could benefit from a longer school year. What to do? What to do?
As does Christmas, but it is explicitly mentioned.
I know, I know Succos is not related to Thanksgiving!! I’m just relating what a friend said: that it was replacing Thanksgiving. It was a dumb thing to say and I didn’t answer her properly. I do think it is a beautiful holiday and it truly has become very popular in NYC. The city streets are decorated with booths, and folks are giving out glasses of wine and food! Just wonderful. But it’s a very new trend!
I’m so proud to find out about my Jewish ancestors. For some reason they converted to the Catholic faith. We don’t have a clue as to why they did that. One of my ancestors held found Texas!!!!!!!!
Also, people forget Thanksgiving’s origins in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln instituted it to bring the country back together.
Why is it always the intellectuals who are stark raving bonkers?
Heh-heh, it was ALWAYS “popular” in NYC, because NYC is heavily populated with Orthodox Jews. It is COMMANDED that this holiday be observed, it’s not just a “nice thing to do”.
Many Jews immigrating to this country found it necessary to jettison their faith in order to find scarce employment, which necessitated them working on the Sabbath and holidays. Or, they left their native countries in order to escape anti-semitism which had taken a life-threatening turn, such as pogroms or the York Massacre, and still felt threatened, so they converted. Does not matter if they converted. If the “convert” was a Jewish woman, and she was your direct maternal ancestor, as I said—a great grandmother, grandmother, mother, etc.—then I believe that you are yourself a Jew.
Exactly. a mutual hatred.
I used to wonder how on earth leftists and Moslems were so tight.
It’s the hatred and lust for destruction.
I think you just want to miss my point.
I may very well be Jewish, that’s fine with me. I knew posting what I posted was going to raise hackles and have people misinterpreting what I said..........
Our public school system should observe all religious holidays and this a step in that direction. ;)
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