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keym

Thu, Nov 21 2024, 8:24 pm

mother51 wrote:

Hi to clarify I live oot where we have off for every fed holiday so for them to stop giving off for thanksgiving but still give off for Labor Day, Presidents’ Day etc is crazy to me. I’m not in any way saying that’s it’s crazy that Lakewood skls aren’t giving off just schools in my position.

I actually lived in an OOT community where we had off Labor Day and Presidents Day but rarely Thanksgiving and Memorial Day.
The logic being Labor Day school will start right after.
Presidents Day there was in-service day.
But Thanksgiving is so close to Chanukah, or Sukkos. Same with Memorial Day being so close to Shavuos, they didn't want the extra vacation days.
Dec 25 and New Years bshita we had school.

↑ shabbatiscoming

Fri, Nov 22 2024, 5:13 am

giftedmom wrote:

No one cares that you love thanksgiving and why. But to be mad that it’s not a thing in the Frum world and schools aren’t giving off is ridiculous.

Its not a thing in the charedi world.
But it most certainly is in the mo world.
I havent lived in america in a LONG time, but we always had off. I would think mo schools, and even some jpf ones, have off on thanksgiving.

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Yesterday at 11:03 pm

write4right wrote:

Your history is wrong. There are fewer Jews in America before the Civil war, so obviously there are fewer Jewish descendants. The major Jewish migration happened well before the second world war, it started in the 1880s. My great grandparents were part of that one. And there are so many others that I have no fear of identifying myself by sharing this information under my screen name..

Could be that there were fewer Jews so fewer descendants. I will say that from what I've heard, the attrition was great. There wasn't much of an infrastructure. I would be happy to be wrong.
If we have members here whose families were here before the Civil War and their direct chain was unbroken, please chime in. I'd love to hear your stories.

And I don't know which pre WWII decade was hardest re Shabbos. It was a struggle for my great-grandparents and grandparents certainly till WWII.

↑ PinkFridge

Yesterday at 11:04 pm

write4right wrote:

The survivors brought many great things to America, but they can't take credit for the work of the people before. By the time the survivors arrived, there were many Jewish schools and Shuls and communities. Of course they contributed but they aren't the source of them.

And I completely agree with this.

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