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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a range of practices but if you want to find the widest sweep, don't schedule anything after noon on the 20th, or at all on the 21st and 22nd. All Jewish holidays start at sundown the night before the official date listed on the regular calendar. Therefore Rosh Hashana starts around 6 or 7 pm on the 20th. More observant people -- even those who only attend services on the High Holidays -- may leave work around 2 or 3 to get home early for a festive meal before going to synagogue. And then be in synagogue each of the next two days. Same story for Yom Kippur except it is the evening before plus one day.[/quote]

Reform Jews don't do the second day, and that is most Jews around here.

OP. Thanks for being thoughtful.[/quote]

Plenty of people celebrate the second day and would not be at work.  The second day is very different than the numerous smaller holidays that only very observant people would take off.  Also, from a practical standpoint, I do think day of the week matters a bit, since if people are traveling, they will take more time.  [/quote]

It's very kind of OP to consider the holiday.  Asking for consideration for the week for travel is too much.  In that case, it just needs to be treated as a person taking vacation.  Work still goes on even with people on vacation.[/quote]

I didn't say anything about people taking the whole week, and I agree to an extent that there is a difference between time before the holiday to travel and the holiday itself.  But I am not sure I agree OP is being "very kind," at least as that could be I interpreted.  No one views it as "very kind" when major work events are not held on or around Christian holidays.  Work certainly goes on during Jewish (and other minority) holidays, but I do think there is an obligation to avoid some sorts of major work events when you know a significant number of people will be out observing the most important holiday of their year.[/quote]

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