I was just thinking this as my wife, socKs, called me to tell me that Target was closed for Easter. As are, it seems, a good majority of the stores around here in Northern Virginia. (Fortunately Old Navy was open for a few hours today.) It's a bit of a crunch considering that this is really the only day between Shabbat and Yom Tov which begins again this evening in which we can get things done.  Perhaps it's the double-edged sword of not having to participate in the Easter rush -- it's not being able to do much while it's occurring.

socKs said that she'll be blogging about this quite soon...

Chag Sameach...

-- S

Target closed on Easter? that warrants a letter. Where I grew up the public schools closed on RH and YK, only half the teachers would be there. Buy what really bugs me is a big sport event in school on a major jewish holiday. duh. don't they get it?

In the fall on 1997 I was working as the program director at the Hillel Foundation at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. It isn't a very large Jewish population -- about 700 Jewish students (undergrad and graduate) in a community of about 28,000.  Yom Kippur happened to fall on Shabbat that year, and the University had decided (years in advance) to schedule Homecoming on that weekend.

The Executive Director and I were relatively new at the time with only two years under our belts in North Carolina. We were shocked -- not only that the decision had been made as such (and not released as part of the public calendar until a few months before), but that the Jewish members of the Board of Directors had become complacent and not argued a case against having it occur that weekend.

We did, however, make a pretty loud statement about this (with op-ed pieces in the school and metropolitan area newspapers) and provided the school administration with the dates for the High Holidays for the next twenty years.  It was interesting having to call the Athletic director and see what could be done about the homecoming parade in front of the Student Union building -- right around the time we were to hold Kol Nidrei there.  (They deserve points for changing the parade route to avoid the building altogether.)

I think we may write Target about this -- perhaps they did have signs up that were later taken down?  Hard to say.

-- S

Oi Vey!  That's why God created movie theatres--for Christmas and Easter  

Well at least our vegetarian Chinese restaurant is open today!

(not that we can eat there...)

Well said!

...socKs.

oh sistah google queen!  i almost used that very bunny image in my easter post, but went with the other because of the easterish greenery.  imagine...braincell sharing from ns all the way to 'bama!

hahahahahaha......... why didn't i meet YOU  while i was inthe south- I might have liked it more.

air kisses tossing your way.