Not only in the Councilman Jewish, but the country itself is heavily Jewish. Oddly, I don’t recall CAIR demanding schools close for Jewish holidays.

Via Bethesda Patch:

Christmas and Easter fall during winter and spring breaks. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the two most religious holidays on the Jewish calendar, are granted off-days by Montgomery County Public Schools.

Montgomery County Councilman George Leventhal thinks two additional high holidays should be added to that list.

Leventhal wrote to MCPS Superintendent Joshua Starr and Board of Education President Shirley Brandman on May 23 urging the school system to “provide two school closing days each school year in order for American Muslim members of our community to observe Eid-ul-Adha and Eid-ul-Fitr, the two most significant holidays in the Muslim calendar,” according to a report by Maryland Juice.

Currently, the two holidays are designated as non-testing days for MCPS and Muslim students’ absences are excused.

“Thousands of our neighbors fill mosques throughout the county for religious observement and deserve the same recognition of their most sacred holidays that other faiths enjoy,” Leventhal wrote in his letter to Starr and Brandman.

In response to the letter, MCPS spokesperson Dana Tofig said the school system would consider a change.