On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:35, Ira Abramov wrote: > after years of debating whether it makes ANY sense to bunch memorial day > and independence day (I fealt rediculous and bad one year walking around > town on memorial day buying meat and booze for the party on ID eve), the > best solution they could find is move ID rather than memorial alone? I > mean, ID's date has a meaning, memorial day can be a week before and > holocaust day should be on Tisha b'av, where tradition had it for > milenea. >
Holocaust day shouldn't move to Tisha b'av. There's a reason for it's date - the day the Warsaw ghetto uprising began. Tisha b'av is a religious date, which most Israelies don't remember, or care about. Yuri -- Yuri Bronshtein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
