The War on Rosh Hashanah
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2014/10/02/The-War-onRosh-Hashanah/stories/201410020234
For yet another year the lamestream media have failed to cover an attack on religion in America. Im referring, of course, to the War on Rosh Hashanah.
Can you believe there are merchants all over the country who didnt have a single Lshana Tovah! sign up last week? And I guarantee that for the entire High Holidays, almost every clerk will tell me to have a nice day and not wish me to be inscribed in the Book of Life for the new year. Its the reason for the season!
You might say that it should be up to every merchant to decide what kinds of greetings best fit the stores customer base. You might also be a secular humanist who hates America....
If this were still a civilized country with proper respect for faith, every school day between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur would start with the blowing of a shofar. That would wake kids up more than any moment of silence, I can tell you. A rams horn blast is like sitting next to a truck horn. And dont bother me with complaints that it would confuse or intimidate students whose families follow other religions.