Today marks the first of the two days of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, soon it will be Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. These are the High Holy Days.
In my youth, school started the day after Labor Day, soon the High Holy Days would commence. Our Jewish schoolmates and teachers would get off from school. Since they made up almost half of the school population we would have "bring a board game to school days" just to occupy our time. As a result I always thought that the beginning of the school year was a fun time.
We lived in a more "religiously tolerant" time. Those were the days of religious respect, not religious opposition. Any way happy New Year!
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