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Don’t schedule important events on major Jewish holidays

A lot of things get scheduled on major Jewish holidays, in a way that prevents Jews from being able to participate. This needs to stop. 

If you’re in charge of scheduling things like:

Please avoid scheduling on major Jewish holidays. The most important ones to avoid are:

These holidays are at slightly different times each year, because the Jewish calendar is lunar. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are in the fall, Passover is in the Spring. You can check when they are at hebcal.com, and hebcal.com also has a calendar you can subscribe to that says when the holidays are.

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the times at which Jews who don’t go to synagogue at any other time of year go. (In the same way that some Christians only go to church on Easter and Christmas). They are also major family holidays, even for people who are otherwise secular. Yom Kippur is a 25 hour fast (from both food and water) and most people who observe it are pretty wiped out immediately afterwards. 

The first two nights of Passover are when Jewish families hold Passover seders. It’s a major family holiday, even for people who do not consider themselves religious and never go to synagogue at all. Nearly all Jewish families have some sort of seder. 

It is considerate to also avoid scheduling important events that would require travel on the day before and after these major holidays. It is critical to avoid scheduling events on the holidays themselves.

There are other Jewish holidays that will create conflicts for some Jews, but they’re not as important to most Jewish people. 

tl;dr: If you value Jewish participation and solidarity with Jews, it is critically important to avoid scheduling important events on on Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and the first two nights of Passover.

The Hebrew calendar measures days from sunset to sunset, so a single-day holiday will span two dates on the Gregorian (civil/secular) calendar. If the calendar you’re using doesn’t say ‘Yom Kippur begins at sundown,’ check another calendar to verify which Gregorian evening and day will have the holiday observance(s).

That too. Thank you.

@digievents {I’ve seen people here frequently confused about such dates and timeframes, so a reblog of this post might help people figure out potential future event timing!}

Since Russians celebrate Christmas on January 7th, I always assumed one of the Russian Digidestined was Jewish and that dinner we saw the main three having was a Shabbat dinner, or maybe one of them had the others over for a quaint little Hanukkah dinner post Digimon crisis.

(Kenta note: According to my spellcheck Shabbat is spelled wrong, but since I don’t know otherwise, I’m leaving it as is.)

{I'm really late acknowledging this post on this blog, but I did want to eventually clear some things up...}

(Shabbat was spelled correctly!) [Though there can be variations in spelling too, like "Shabbos" in Yiddish.]

Anyway Anonymous here was very much Valid when it came to having Jewish Chosen headcanons.

But re: Jewish holidays in 2002 specifically, Hanukkah / Chanukah for Hebrew Year 5763 began on Friday, 29 November 2002 and ended on Saturday, 7 December 2002, so the dinner would have had to be very post-Hanukkah in 2002 if it was around Hanukkah specifically, as this question has also been asked a couple times by other fans inquiring about '02 timeline' things. (And Daisuke and 02 Chosen didn't travel until closer to X-mas in the timeline, '~canonically~'...)

{Cap by Me}

{The time Daisuke & Ken & Yamato arrived on Miami Beach in 2002, 12/24, X-mas Eve, at "10:15 P.M." time-mark exactly, 'Canonically' = "12:15 P.M." on 12/25, X-mas day, in comparison} [Thanks timezones!! (Miami is in E.S.T, Eastern time zone!)]

{On a personal detail...: Part of my family literally lived in Miami during this year - so we do have memories of the exact ""timeline""!} (Down to weather...)

(Fun Fact: Hanukkah 2003 the very next year, in comparison, began 9 December 2003 and ended on 27 December 2003! So if any Chosen Children shenanigans were happening around X-mas in the following year, they'd very much likely be aware of Hanukkah happening right around the same timeframe and NOT wholly ignorant of it or the fact that Jews, you know, exist in this world that this real!!!-world timeline is based on and in this very series' canon.)

{Also because Jewish-American Chosen Child Steve & Frigimon existed while literally meeting Daisuke and others in New York!}

In the Japanese version, the only line here shown was "In the end, the Chosen Children saved the world from danger. ...", so nothing else specific was noted about the Russian Chosen in this scene, and honestly it's still ALSO my head-canon that one or two of the three are Jewish specifically too - but that this, specifically is an inter-faith gathering seen if so. (Hanukkah is not the same as X-mas, and the X-mas tree in the background would indicate at least one of them likely did celebrate X-mas specifically, but yes!) {As in, the X-mas decorations seen would just be exactly/mainly that to a Jewish Chosen Child: decorations.}

In comparison, Shabbat begins every Friday evening at sundown.

So Shabbat in the year 2002 that week would have been on the following Friday, 27 December 2002 and ending the next Saturday evening, 28 December 2002. (The 24~25th would have been Tuesday~Wednesday.)

On that note, Hanukkah this year (2022!) begins on December 18th going through until December 26th!

[Note: If you are going to reply to or comment on this, please be respectful, since this is a topic involving Jewish people and differences between Christianity and Judaism.] {And yes, I am aware that 'X-mas' is 'celebrated' in Japan somewhat differently; even then the differences are important to note, ok.}

American digidestined

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Phil and Flarerizamon (Digimon)

Thanks to Dragonrider49 with have..well the bottom is one of the Chinese chosen. The top one, can’t even remember his name lol.