More Districts Closing on Muslim Holidays

October 7, 2007

Author: DEBRA NUSSBAUM

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/07mainnj.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

IN Paterson, there has been no school on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur for years. But now the schools are also closed on the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr (the end of the month of fasting for Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca).

Prospect Park schools generally close for the first and last days of Ramadan and Eid al-Adha.