Happy New Year to all those Jewish folks out there reading this little corner of the interwebs, and I’d like to thank you guys, not only for the four-day weekend I’m enjoying because York University made all Jewish holidays universal for students and staff, but also because our law professors took the opportunity of a four-day weekend to load us down with so much reading it almost didn’t fit in my backpack.
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Hey … some bad news for you. York U only made the most widely-observed Jewish holidays days off for students and staff. (It had not, of course, made them “universal” for students and staff. Not sure how it would go about doing that — synagogue at gunpoint, perhaps?).
Those who are observant enough to observe Jewish holidays have therefore, as usual, had to make other arrangements for regularly-scheduled classes held on Sukkot, Simhat Torah, Shavuot, and all of the other Jewish holidays on which Jews are prohibited from working. You can learn more about it all on, say, Wikipedia.