So should we hold elections that don't interfere with all the other Religions?
We may never get a date
Someone said something about Church and State
My view---hold the date----vote early if your unavailable---it's an option
https://ctvnews.ca/politics/elections-canada-ordered-to-review-moving-election-day-from-jewish-holiday-1.4520474
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Well, certainly no elections during the "airing of grievances" period of Festivus.
When it comes to religion, there is never a complete union with reason. Its about politics.
OK...I'll give ya Festivus
I don't think it is favoritism if they would not have done the same if election day occurred on another religion's holiday.
Never heard of it before. (Of course never had Elections at Christmas or Easter)
Ramadan?---Sikh holidays?
Again early voting is an option
I do have a problem with "favoritism." I see it more as accommodation.
I agree, and I also think early voting is the best solution despite its drawbacks.
I doubt most Diaspora Jews could even tell you what Shemini Atzeret is but it's actually quite an important holiday. The Hebrew Bible calls for a gathering (atzeret) on the eighth (shemini) of Sukkot (a festival celebrating the intake of the harvest). Jews are called to Temple and it's one of the four days per year in which the Yizkor service (memorial services for the dead) takes place. When there's Yizkor, you know it's important. (The other three times are Yom Kippur, the eight day of Passover, and Shavout (when G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people)). No work, driving, etc.
In Israel, it's a one-day holiday, but in the Diaspora it's a two-day holiday with the second day called Simchat Torah - which celebrates the last weekly reading from the Torah and the beginning to do it all over again. Simchat Torah is a fun holiday.
FWIW, Muslims do work during Ramadan.
But it lasts a full lunar month. That would be a long time to take off work or essentially shut down a Muslim-majority country.
Some take off for Eid.
Why don't they just hold the election on the Sunday before?
Oh, yeah...
That reminds me of one of my favorite all-time bumper stickers, seen on a beat-up, dented and rusty small pick up truck driven by a hippy/punkish young woman - "Kali is My Co-Pilot".