High Holiday Email

The University of Alabama requires students to notify their Professors to miss classes, due to Holiday Observance, without penalty, by the second week of classes!

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Have your child copy, paste, edit & email the following to their professors.

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Dear Professor,

 

My name is [Insert name] and I am a student in your class.

 

I will not be able to attend certain classes this semester due to religious observance. On these days I will not be allowed to do work, which makes attendance on these days or assignments submitted on these days not possible.

If I have assignments or exams on these days, I would like to reschedule them even if it means I must submit assignments and take exams earlier or later than the rest of the class.

 

If rescheduling will be for after the holidays, please keep in mind that, while I will be absent on those days, the prayer services and family celebrations limit how much time I can study, making a test or assignment due immediately following very difficult.

 

The Holidays, where I can’t be present in the classroom or do work, are on the following days:

• Rosh Hashanah: Friday, September 15 at sundown to Wednesday Sunday, September 17 at nightfall.

• Yom Kippur – Sunday, September 24 at sundown to Monday, September 25 at nightfall.

• Sukkot: Friday, September 29 at sundown to Sunday, October 1 at nightfall.

• Shmini Atzeret, Friday, October 6 at sundown– Sunday, October 8 at nightfall.

 

If you have any questions regarding these observances, please feel free to contact Rabbi Kussi Lipskier, Rabbi at the University of Alabama, at Rabbi@Jewishbama.com

Thank you for your assistance.

-[Insert name]