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Keyser Söze

On 8/25/15 2:47 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:23:51 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 8/25/15 12:11 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 06:40:51 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Oh. Well, my guess is that Jews who observe their religion's dietary
laws don't really give a tinker's dam about your religion's rewrite.

Is Jew who doesn't follow the laws of his religion still a Jew?

I have no idea. I suggest you pose that question to rabbis in each of
Judaism's various sects. I do know from growing up when and where I did
that "reform" Jews for the most part do not follow Jewish dietary
regulations. Of course, that was in the days when most Catholics ate
fish on Fridays, and fish was the menu choice in our public junior and
senior high schools on that day of the week. Dietary regs apparently
have "slipped."

I remember when the pope said a burger in Friday was not going to
doom you to hell. George Carlin lost a whole string of jokes.

On the other hand, all the schoolkids were grateful for the Jews,
because the public schools closed on the Jewish High Holidays.

Must have been a northern thing. In DC and Maryland the jewish kids
took a day off but the rest of us were in school.
IBM dealt with all of this by giving us 6 "optional holidays" that you
could take any time you liked along with the 6 or 7 nationally
recognized holidays. It was really just an extra few vacation days but
you had a way to say you got your particular holidays off.

It never really mattered that much to me. I ended up working most of
the holidays anyway (no kids for most of my career). I let the people
who found it important, to have their day with the family. I would
just take another day off somewhere and pocket the holiday pay.

Well, back in the day, not only did New Haven have a large Jewish and
Roman Catholic population, probably the majority when combined, but a
very high percentage of the public school teachers were Jewish. So, the
schools likely would have had very few teachers on hand when the Jewish
high holidays came around.

I seem to recall we got Columbus Day off, too. There were more Italian
Catholics than Irish Catholics.

The Italians used to put on a several day feast and carnival in
mid-August to mark the Assumption of Mary. It was held a few blocks away
from where we lived, and when I was 12, I got to kiss my first Italian
girl there. She didn't slap me.