BCEFA Flea Market falls on Rosh Hashanah

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 9:33pm

Anyone know why BCEFA picked Sunday, Sept. 24 as the date for the flea market? Did they realize it was the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish High Holiday? I'm sure many of the people who usually go won't be able to make it....I sure won't. Too bad...
Updated On: 8/1/06 at 09:33 PM

[Alix7272]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 9:50pm

NOOOOO! Can this be true? I was looking forward to it so much. Hopefully, they'll come to their senses and change the date so that everyone can attend this wonderful event.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:19pm

Yea, I don't think that is fair.

Jewish people way to often get the short end of the straw.

My school once planned something on a Jewish holiday and once they realized/found it, they changed the date.

Maybe they'll do the same here.

Not that I can go anyway....*sigh*

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:20pm

Meh. This pisses me off.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:21pm

I missed my prom, and many other events due to them being on, as my friends call them "JewDays". But to be fair, so many other events are planned on holidays of other cultures and religions. It's not just Jews. You can't please all the people all of the time.

Akiva

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:23pm

I'm not Jewish. So this doesn't affect me.. but I apologize to all the people that this does affect

[wexy]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:25pm

Thats what happens when Mel Gibson is doing the scheduling.

[BJC899]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:29pm

someone send them an e-mail NOW

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:32pm

Good thing I couldn't have gone anyway. I hate it when things are planned on big Jewish holidays. I was once in a show at camp scheduled for a fast day, and I had to be switched out.

[zzannahk]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 10:43pm

I know this sounds bitchy, but do you really think that they didn't use a calendar to plan their event?

I think they are consistent with being late September, it is on the last SUNDAY of the month, the 24th, not Saturday

[BJC899]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 11:01pm

I sent an e-mail.

:)

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 12:47am

BCJ899;

You don't look Jewish at all.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 10:52am

Aww. Hopefully they'll change it for the people unable to make it.

I just have to be home for dinner, so I can be there for a couple hours.

[BJC899]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:59am

"I certainly took into account the dates of the Jewish holidays, as we do every year, since both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur move from year to year .

After checking with several Jewish friends, the agreement was that avoiding Yom Kippur, as the most solemn Holiday on Monday, October 2 was a must. - with scheduling the Flea Market for even the day before Sunday, October 1 not a good idea.

Rosh Hashana begins, as you know, at sundown on Friday, the 22nd, and I was advised that only the most observant Jews (who would more than likely not attend the Flea Market in any event) would observe the full second day of Rosh Hashana, making Sunday, September 24th acceptable. I guess I didn't ask the right Jews.

Sunday, September 10th is out as that is BROADWAY ON BROADWAY and while it might seem an interesting idea to do both on the same day - so many people in Times Sqaure and all, logistically it would be a nightmare and the city would never allow us to close W.44th Street with all of the "bow-tie" also shut down to traffic. And as the 10th would be, the 17th is simply too early for us to get everything done that we have to do before the event.

The second dilemma was that the BC/EFA fiscal year ends on September 30th. The Flea Market has to be produced and booked before that day. October 1 beings FY 2006.
"

:)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:36am

"I was advised that only the most observant Jews (who would more than likely not attend the Flea Market in any event) would observe the full second day of Rosh Hashana"

Why would the most observant Jews not attend the Flea Market in any event?

I'd like to hear the lousy explanation for this insult.

Updated On: 9/22/06 at 12:36 AM

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:38am

It's a secular event.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:52am

Oh my god. The outrage here could be better served elsewhere...

[Copeman63]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 10:33am

I know I'm gonna get hate mail for this... But does anyone see the joke about jewish people not wanting to spend money in the first place?

***Ethinic jokes might be uncouth, But you laugh because they're based on truth.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 10:37am

Well i didn't take issue with anything in this thread until:

"I was advised that only the most observant Jews (who would more than likely not attend the Flea Market in any event) would observe the full second day of Rosh Hashana"

Why would they not be likely to attend in any event. I am an observant Jew and if I lived in NY I would be there in a second (on a year that it didn't coincide with Rosh Hashanah)

Akiva

[Dre2387]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:34pm

I really feel for anyone who is Jewish, but the flea market last year fell on Sun. Sept. 25th. Is the 25th a sacred day too for Jews?

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:40pm

Whu are there so many threads about this? It is held at the same time each year. This year it happens to be on the same day as a Jewish "holy day". That's just the way it is. It is a secular event and if they had to check with each and every religion/cult to see if there was a "holy day", the event would never happen.

Posted: 9/22/06 at 12:44pm

Its got nothing to do with Anti-semitism. Its always the same weekend in September.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 1:02pm

Rosh Hashanah falls on a different day every year. I think it was the week before the flea market last year.

[ElphabaRose]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 1:26pm

I'm with Akiva, if that was the only weekend BCEFA could hold the flea market, it stinks for Jews who celebrate the holiday, but its understandable, but after this response.

After checking with several Jewish friends, the agreement was that avoiding Yom Kippur, as the most solemn Holiday on Monday, October 2 was a must. - with scheduling the Flea Market for even the day before Sunday, October 1 not a good idea.

That was pure bad judgement and it really angers me that the person went on the judgement of a few friends. If only the most observant Jews go to shul on Rosh Hashanah, why do so many synagogues (especially conservative and reform) have to rent out alternate locations so that they can house their entire congrigation which usually fits fine in their buildings? Also, the holiday starts at sundown, the flea market would be over by the time Yom Kippur started. There would be no conflict.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 2:05pm

The date of Rosh Hashanah changes every year and can be anywhere from September to October. The flea market is the 3rd Sunday of September every year. Why should they have changed their rather-regularly-scheduled date because this year, a holiday happens to start 2 days before?