Yom Kippur Birthday Party

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what comes of marrying shiksas.

LOL

[Anonymous]

OP once again.

Oddly enough, my daughters party is the next day. We are doing small party this year, only 6 girls, and this girl is one of them. So, I sent regrets and said we hoped we see them on Sunday!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP once again.

Oddly enough, my daughters party is the next day. We are doing small party this year, only 6 girls, and this girl is one of them. So, I sent regrets and said we hoped we see them on Sunday!

Sunday during the day is Yom Kippur.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Sunday during the day is Yom Kippur.

What?

[Anonymous]

Yom is Fri-Sat night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sunday during the day is Yom Kippur.

What?

oops, sorry! Never mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yom is Fri-Sat night.

This. It ends at sundown Saturday night.

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP who replied it's Fri-Sat....i REALLY wanted to reply "but Sunday is when you go to Church!" :-p

[Anonymous]

I feel like most people I know who are not religious, whatever they may have been raised with, are not that tuned in to religious holidays period. If my friends throw a party on Good Friday or Easter, I'm not going to attend, but I'm not going to be pissed off either, because I know that they are not religious so they weren't aware of it. Heck, I have a friend who is Jewish but not super observant who scheduled her wedding for a Jewish holiday without realizing it until it was too late, and some close family members weren't able to attend.

[Anonymous]

we got married on Yom Kippur. Only one of our guest was Wewish and he did not attend. Had we had more Jewish guest we would not have chosen that date, but we aren't Jewish and it honestly did not even occur to us until everything was booked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...Yom Kippur is only every major and even minor calendar you can consult on when to pick a birthday party date.

I wouldn't attend. Even if I weren't religious, I grew up where if you weren't going to synagogue on Yom, you didn't do anything. I'm pregnant and not fasting, I plan on attending for an hour or two, but won't spend the rest of the day running errands. It's an important day.

I'd see if your daughter can have a smaller get together with the birthday girl at a later date to celebrate since they're such good friends - this will be a good lesson to her on the importance on the holiday. Just an idea.

It's not on the calendar that's hanging in my kitchen, nor is it showing up on my Google calendar, so to me it seems possible that they really didn't know.

If I were this parent, I'd be bummed when I realized I had scheduled it for Yom Kippur and I'd try to watch out for that in future years (and I'd hope someone would mention it to me, politely, so that I would know).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Larla Shorenstein will sadly not be able to attend. Yom Kippur is a day for reflection, not a day for partying.

Rude!

[Anonymous]

Non practicing Jew, my daughter would go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non practicing Jew, my daughter would go.

Also, my husband as a non practicing catholic would send her on Easter too. We are equally bad Jew-istians.

[Anonymous]

We absolutely wouldn't go because we will be in synagogue.

Yom Kippur is on the calendar we got from the Giant that is hanging in my kitchen.

To each his own i guess.