"Robyn Kozierok" wrote in message
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dragonlady wrote:

I'm on a committee that inadvertently scheduled a meeting for the first
night of Passover. We DO know better -- at least one of the people who
was in the room when we did the scheduling was Jewish -- somehow we just
missed it. (We rescheduled it once we DID figure it out -- and I like
to think that I'd have somehow caught the mistake eventually, myself,
though I don't celebrate Passover -- but someone did have to draw our
attention to our goof.)

This is made more challenging by the fact that the holidays move around
on the secular calendar. It's quite easy for even most Jews to miss
the fact that a certain secular date is going to wind up conflicting
with a major holiday more than a few weeks before the date.

Not any observant Jew that I know. Jewish people own Jewish calendars for
this exact purpose. Schools with Jewish students consult these calendars.
They're free at Funeral Homes nationwide...they're all over the internet,
and they are sold in bookstores the world over. I can certainly understand
a non-Jew scheduling a meeting without checking a Jewish calendar, but a
Jewish person suggesting a business meeting during a holiday time (say
Sept/Oct or March/April) without checking a calendar is just asking for
trouble. And FWIW, most secular calendars have the major Jewish holidays
like Passover, Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur on them as well. It's VERY hard
to actually claim to have missed Passover. After all, we didn't miss Ash
Wednesday, Maudy Thursday, or Good Friday.... they're all on my secular
calendar, even if I have no clue of what Maudy Thursday is (something with
washing feet?).

Marjorie