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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Christian but grew up in a predominantly Jewish town. I know to look for YK and other Jewish holidays, and would never plan an event unless I knew no Jews were slated to attend.  However, I can also tell you that if I were from someplace where Jews were rare I wouldn't have a clue, and not every calendar lists it, and in some cases those calendars also list every major and minor holiday from around the world that you ignore most of.

But this happens both ways. I remember being invited to bar/bat mitzvahs on Good Friday where about 25% of the kids in the class who were invited were Catholic. So a bunch of us went but didn't eat, and even though it was a late night party, they cleared the food at 11:50 just as we were getting ready to eat. Such is life.[/quote]

Were you really invited to more than one of these? I can perhaps see one, but even that is hard to believe.  Bar/bat mitzvahs are typically on a Saturday, some on Sundays, but I have never heard of them being held on a Friday.  Usually, the kid is called to the Torah, and Torah is not read on Fridays.  And besides, Good Friday/Easter usually coincides, or is in close proximity, to Passover, which a) has a lot of food restrictions, and b) people often spend with their families and often travel, kind of like Thanksgiving.  Most Jews would not want to deal with the hassle of hosting a bar/bat mitzvah on Passover.[/quote]

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