The graphic header at the top of this page implies a bit of a contradiction. It needs an explanation.
Email is posted as usual during the days of the year that are not listed elsewhere in this section on Holidays. That includes some days that may surprise some subscribers. For example, although Chanukah is certainly a popular holiday, the postings continue for those eight days (except for Shabbat, of course).
Our groups are likely to be open and functioning during the civil holidays celebrated in your country.
These groups are international. Those national holidays that seem to overwhelm you and your home are not necessarily recognized elsewhere. Furthermore, no country that can claim preference for civil holidays, or can expect others to observe their own local holidays.
Shall our subscribers all around the world celebrate France's Bastille Day? American Independence Day? Spain's Father's Day? Italy's Mother's Day (or perhaps the national spaghetti day)? If we do decide to celebrate Independence Day for every country, then we'll have a problem with countries like England, that do not have an Independence Day.
Worse - if we observe the civil holidays of every country, then we won't have many days left to post messages!
We've resolved this problem by agreeing that these are Jewish groups. As such, we have selected the one set of holidays that Jews can agree on around the world - Jewish holidays. Actually, even these days have some discrepancies in different parts of the world - so we'll have to handle that problem as well.
Find out more about holidays on our Jewish Groups
Subscribe to Jewish Groups
Find out about guidelines for our Jewish groups
Find out more about other Jewish and Hebrew groups
Are you required to read this webpage for a course? Do NOT print out the article. It is copyrighted.
Your exercise for this article is as follows:
Copyright © David Grossman. World rights reserved. This article may not be printed, forwarded, reproduced, or copied in any way or in any medium without written permission from David Grossman.
