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From: avi@pegasus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: How do you deal with Jewish Holidays and WORK?
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 23:46:55 EST
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Just to give an idea of one type of topic I would like to see discussed,
here is one that has been on my mind.

Our company does not have the allowable holidays attached to anything even
remotely Jewish. We get the usual holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas,
but nothing like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succoth, Pesach .... This can
add up very rapidly to many days off -- if you take them all. I have
sometimes taken off and arranged to do paperwork (reading) at home --
without losing a days pay. At other times, I have used compensatory time,
non-fixed holidays, vacation days -- or just gone in to work.

The problem is not as bad for me, as for some truly orthodox friends.
Sometimes your entire vacation budget is used up just to stay home on Yomim
Tovim. Leaving early on Friday can also be a hassle. In college, I often
missed important classes and even tests, even though I was in Brooklyn
College. Does anybody have suggestions or experiences that they would like
to share on living in a society that is not geared up to deal with the
Jewish lifestyles? Please, no suggestions to move to Israel.
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-=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241
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-=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241
 suggested paths: [ihnp4, allegra, cbosg, hogpc, ...]!pegasus!avi