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From: stevens@teklabs.UUCP (Steven J Silberberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: MLK and Jewish holidays
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Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 13:54:33 EDT
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>>>I too believe that it is more important to have some way of 
>>>recognizing MLK than to recognize Columbus Day...
>>>Especially in schools - I think if nothing else then all schools should
>>>be closed on the birthday of MLK. MLK is a much more important figure
>>>in the history of the US (if not the world...) than many of these
>>>Jewish holidays on which schools are closed.

>>>Velu Sinha
>>>UUCP:	{seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!velu
>>>CSNet:	velu@umcp-cs		ARPA:	velu.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay

I agree, Martin Luther King day is infinitely more important than Columbus day.

However, which Jewish holidays are you referring to in which schools are closed?
Xmas? Perhaps Good Friday.  Have you ever known of any school (besides Brandeis
maybe) which had Yom Kippur as a day off?  Of course not, no one recognizes
Jewish holidays.

In my 22 years, I have found just the opposite.  In eighth grade, I was on the
soccer team.  We had a practice (practice, NOT game!) on Yom Kippur.  The next
day I was notified that I had been cut from the team.  I was told that "If you
want to play, you've got to come to practices".  Is this an instance of one of
the "many Jewish holidays on which school was closed."

In personal correspondence, you told me you were not anti-semitic.  I guess
I believe you.  I'll bet some of your best friends are Jewish, right?  And I
bet you feel no hostility towards Jews even though they are all rich.  Tell
you what.  If we ever meet, let me show you my horns; they're even bigger than
my big nose.
-- 
Steve Silberberg