[etni] Re: just wondering... (not really about teaching)
- From: Raymond Ravinsky <rainbows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:10:28 +0200
Very well 'spoken,' Adele and Laurie. And now the appropriate authorities must
be found ... the current situation would have to be changed by Law, so I would
like to suggest (not looking to give anyone extra work, or anything - but it is
the practical side to this) asking one's favourite political party
(oxymoron?!!) to introduce an amendment of law, or bill, in the Knesset.
Approvingly,
Raymond, Tzfat
----- Original Message -----
From: Adele Raemer and Laurie Levy
To: evagreenya@xxxxxxxxx ; etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: [etni] Re: just wondering... (not really about teaching)
Personally, I have always found it hypocritical of our institutions NOT to
recognize the Gregorian New Year! How many of us use the Hebrew dates? How many
of us even know what the Hebrew year is? Do we write it on our letters? (Most
of us do NOT!) Have you ever gotten a doctors' appointment with a Hebrew date
on it? (I haven't) What about the tax year? (For some of my employers, I have
to fill out a new form for me being employed there, even though it is in the
middle of the school year - AND the Hebrew calendar year!)
I hate it when I have to argue with the kids that they HAVE to be in school
on Jan 1st! Aside from the fact that Gregorian time-keeping is NO LESS (and
yes- probably MORE) meaningful to me in my every day life than the Hebrew year,
(the Hebrew year is more meaningful for me traditionally, culturally - but the
ONLY think I count by it are my parent's yartzeit candles) it unites us with
the rest of the world, who also celebrate their own holidays, but do not ignore
the global New Year. So WHAT if some guy persecuted us way back when! Why
should I continue to suffer for that NOW?! In fact, if you look at it according
to those parameters, I would have a hard time going to GERMANY - but no PROBLEM
celebrating New Year!
(Sorry for the tirade, but you have hit on a sensitive spot for me ;)
Adele
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From: etni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:etni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Eva Green
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:37 AM
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [etni] just wondering... (not really about teaching)
Hi to all who read this,
i was just wondering: we're starting 2007. before the end of 2006 and these
past few days i had many discussions with friends/family about celebrating "new
year's" in israel. some said it's very unjewish, some said we might as well
because we live in a world accoring to the gregorian calander.
then i had some students talk about that, too. is it bad to celebrate the
new year as a jewish person? or can we celebrate it, but with limits? what
should we tell our students?
just wondering if you bumped into the same thoughts...
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