Holding Ag Day during Rosh Hashanah evinces a continuing lack of sensitivity
Jewish residents have the uniquely inclusive experience of choosing which community they belong to.
This year, Acton celebrates Ag Day and Rosh Hashanah on the same day, offering Jewish residents the uniquely inclusive experience of choosing which community they belong to.
After years of task forces, listening sessions, equity audits, and solemn institutional commitments to inclusiveness, it somehow escaped notice that the town’s signature agricultural festival had been scheduled for the Jewish New Year.
One might have thought the calendar the least complicated instrument of civic life. Or one might conclude that it simply didn’t matter.
Deb Kavaler Wysopal
Annursnac Hill Road
