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To: knuthom
Why are they allowed to call it the "Eid holiday", but have to use "Winter break" and "Spring break" instead of Christmas and Easter?

Probably because we haven't thought of a good euphemism yet. Christmas and Easter fall near the Winter and Spring Solstices. In their honor, schools typically give not just a day off, but a week or two weeks-- hence there's a real "break."

Eid is just one day, so there's no "break" that can be structured around it-- similarly, Rosh H'Shana and Yom Kippur are just 3 days collectively. There's no p.c. way to hide the reason for taking off school-- unless you wanted to honor those days by giving students a full week off, and calling it "Fall Break" or something.

81 posted on 11/14/2003 4:23:36 PM PST by ChicagoHebrew
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To: ChicagoHebrew
Allow me to introduce my inappropriate comparison of apples and oranges.

The public schools I mentioned that give off for the Jewish Holidays with the Holiday names. So since our Public School breaks have turned into Winter and Spring; but the Jewish Holidays are the holiday names, then is that still apples and oranges?

Or have they not thought of a good euphenism for the Jewish Holidays?
84 posted on 11/14/2003 4:45:19 PM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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