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Part of making students sensitive to their new classmates backgrounds should include the University recognizing the diverse religious backgrounds students have. The FDO must end its habit of scheduling mandatory functions on the Jewish high holidays--particularly next year when Rosh Hashanah falls at the end of orientation week. The FDO must take into account all religious holidays when setting the orientation week calendar...
...fact that Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish high holiday, fell at the end of shopping period contributed to some students' inability to hand in cards on time, Smith said...
...recall teachers and school officials anxious to accommodate my absences for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And perhaps most of all, I remember the great pride and pleasure that my grandfather took in being invited year after year to speak at local churches or at the Lions Club on one or another Jewish topic...
...weekend before, the four Jewish team members played in the Harvard Invitational on Rosh Hashanah, another high Jewish holiday. "We just weren't going to do it again," Cooper said...
...Jewish, you really only get three days of shopping period, because of Yom Kippur, which falls on Wednesday this year. Harvard reacted to these scheduling conflicts with typical aplomb; it ignored them, although it did manage to move freshmen registration to Sunday because Rosh Hashanah fell on a Monday...