It’s been more than six years since we began publishing our Holiday Information Sheets. They’ve evolved from being directed at staff in health care to being adapted to employees and staff in a range of public capacities. The updates provide basic information about the different holidays and commemorations. They aim to help different organizations operate during these times, enabling both staff and beneficiaries (whichever is appropriate) to best mark them in meaningful ways. Over the years we’ve received a great deal of feedback from a wide range of organizations, telling us how much these updates have helped them.
Information on Prophet Muhammad ascension to heaven
Amid the COVID-19 crisis and its resulting upheavals, we continue to update and distribute the Holiday Information Sheets. This time late-March – April is full of holidays – the Christian Easter, the Jewish Passover, and this year, the day on the Muslim calendar that commemorates the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to heaven.
Easter information sheet
These new information sheets are targeted at businesses and companies that are focusing on diversity and inclusions, especially around different holidays – how to commemorate them and how employees commemorate them, social and political tensions associated with them, and more.
Passover information sheet
Here’s the Facebook post by Cultural Competency Desk Director, Orna Shani-Golan:
And the Facebook post about Passover and Easter:
And about the Druze holiday of Nabi al-Shuaib celebration:
You can browse all the Holiday Information Sheets on the JICC web site here.
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its continued support of cultural competency in Jerusalem.
