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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Larla sure gets around.  And now she's Jewish too!.

I think it is a huge gaffe on the part of the parents.  And it really can't be compared to Easter (a day of celebration). Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the year.  You are supposed to be fasting, praying and repenting.  Even I, dumb Shiksa know that.  [b]It might be akin to scheduling a party on Good Friday for Catholics and the Orthodox.[/b][/quote]

Actually, it's Easter for them. Good Friday is the holiest day for Lutherans.[/quote]

Good Friday and Easter are both part of Holy Week; for Catholics (and Episcopalians, and as lutherans, as far as I understand), they are all important days of observance. Good Friday is the most somber day, and most analogous to Yom Kippur.

If I were still a practicing Catholic, or my husband were still a practicing Jew, I would not send my kid to a party on either day. If a large part of the class is Jewish (and observant), I think it's a little insensitive to basically exclude those children from the party if they will be involved in High Holiday services.[/quote]

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