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From: lou@athos.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.misc
Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism (Jew-hatred) on the network. What should be done?
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Date: 1 Dec 88 15:20:25 GMT
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In article <812@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> shane@chablis.cc.umich.edu
(Shane Looker) writes:
>Here, Jews are allowed to skip classes on Jewish religious holidays.
>This is fine, but non-Jewish groups do not get the same privledges.
>They have to attend classes, etc, even if it is a religious day for
>them.

1) Are you sure about that (that non-Jewish groups do not have the
same priveleges)?  I'd be pretty surprised if that were true,
especially at a state university.  And if your school doesn't allow
the same priveleges to non-Jewish groups, why not protest that, rather
than protesting the priveleges for Jews?  I'm sure you would get the
support of Jewish organizations in such an effort.

Here at Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey) the rule is
that there should be no penalty for any "required religious
observance".  They go so far as to print a list of Christian, Jewish,
Moslem, and even Bahai holidays on the roster sheets professors get at
the start of each semester.

2) It should be clear that by "non-Jewish groups" you mean people
like like the Moslems, since Christians have an even better situation
than the Jews.  (When was the last time you had classes on Christmas,
or even on Sunday?)
-- 
					Lou Steinberg

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