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Subject: Re: Antisemitism in net.politics - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 03:31:26 EDT
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#R:houxa:-27100:hp-kirk:7100035:000:628
hp-kirk!daver    Oct 19 19:41:00 1983

     In New York City schools are traditionally closed on Jewish holidays,
     but the primary reason, at least in the beginning, was that about
     two thirds of the teachers in the school system were Jewish and would
     have been absent anyway; it was easier to close the schools than to
     try to keep them open.  I imagine that the percentage of teachers in
     New York City who are Jewish today is substantially smaller, and that
     a smaller percentage of them are observant, but changing a tradition
     in New York City, especially one which provides holidays to public
     employees, is next to impossible.