School sports trying to navigate around Rosh Hashana - 0 views
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jbdrury on 18 Sep 09Rosh Hashanah technically never falls on a Friday by nature of the Jewish calendar, but with its start at sundown this complicates matters for extra-curricular sports
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"Obviously, everyone is welcome to have their religious freedom but I would think religious freedom is something an individual could address on an individual basis
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I really didn't understand the intent of (the decision not allowing athletes to compete during the holiday) from the get-go," Strack said. "I think (the school district) got themselves into a bind by setting a policy that they probably didn't need, but then not wanting to backtrack on it."
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"Our teams are not competing [Friday and Saturday] because we would not want any our kids to miss opportunities to compete with the rest of the team," Robinson said.
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This is a two-part posting relating to Rosh Hashana, which starts at sundown today (September 18th). It began as an attempt to find out which school districts officially recognize the holiday. Unfortunately in most searches I come up with a variety of disturbing, virulent comments about having to recognize "minority" holidays, etc.