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kleinbl00  ·  3536 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York City schools to close for Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr

I was about to be annoyed that they were taking a day off for Eid but no Jewish holidays but by damn if they don't take two days for Rosh Hashanah.





pseydtonne  ·  3535 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When I went to SUNY-Binghamton (that's a state school), it had such a large Jewish student population (40%) that we got Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur off.

Note that if you weren't Jewish, the latter sucked. They CLOSED THE DINING HALLS after lunch until the next breakfast afterward. We ordered pizza from off campus, which meant coming up with cash.

We did not get Columbus Day off. Instead the Hispanic students would yell at us Italian Americans about something called "La Raza!" (literally "the Race", but it was some remnant of the Chicano Power movement). I was also an Upstater, so I had no context. Columbus didn't look like he'd molested anyone as well off as the guy yelling at me. He's bilingual, from Queens, and getting a degree from the top public university in the state -- talk about hegemony to some actual honkies, man.

I guess what I'm saying is: 1992 sucked. 1993 was much better. Oh, and pizza.