The good news is that I got the job at J.; the bad news is that this Yenta can only wear so many hats at a time (and Lord knows I LOVE hats.) So posting might be a bit slow this Yom Kippur week.

But I did come across this op-ed piece from Salem, OR about how school legislators need to check the calendar before scheduling teacher in-service days so they don’tconflict with the High Holidays. I’d like to extend the same admonition to the people who originally scheduled my son’s class camping trip on Yom Kippur. (“Well, we checked the calendar,” was the parent-in-charge’s lame response. They moved the trip after I galvanized the two other Jewish families to complain.)

In order to prevent such a shanda from happening again, I took the liberty of printing out a five-year calendar of the Jewish holidays for the school’s secretary, principal and PTA president. Was this too pushy or the noblesse oblige of the Jewish mother?