That’s pretty reasonable. Used to be barber shops (at least in CA) were all closed Monday for a similar reason,
The reason the Jewish General Hospital exists is that 100 years ago, no hospital would allow a Jewish doctor on their staff. I think a secondary reason was so patients could get kosher meals.
It’s a little more complicated than that.
1930-06-12_1685.pdf
The-Jewish-Problem-in-US-Med-Edu-1.pdf
The WASP establishment wanted to retain proportional representation of WASP Doctors at WASP hospitals, and there were arguments about if quotas or silent discrimination was the best way to go about that, but suggesting that “no hospital would allow a Jewish Doctor on staff” is just wrong.
Some hospitals would not hire RC or Prod or Jewish doctors, and many hospitals would not hire Black doctors or nurses, and (more importantly) specialist training positions at teaching hospitals went preferentially to “PLU”, Jewish doctors were being trained and working in hospitals: the questions leading to the creation of JGH were about numbers and specialist training.
Did they just ask people applying to medical schools or hospitals if they were Jewish (or Black, or whatever) in order to implement their blatant, illegal anti-Semitism, or was there a subtler method?
Both, and which should be used was the subject of argument, particularly in the Jewish community (I’m guessing that the WASP community didn’t care either way, but maybe I’ve just missed that part of the discussion).
Not, of course “illegal”, where did you get that? And keep in mind that an important part of the “I wouldn’t join any club that would have me” joke was that he didn’t want to live as part of a ghetto: not just that he didn’t want to join a non-selective WASP club, he particularly didn’t want to join a Jewish club that was selective.
I don’t know what it’s like now in Melbourne, but when I was young, if you wanted to study cardiology, you had to be Jewish. Because all the cardiologists were Jewish, and offered training positions to Jewish students. How did they manage that? I suppose, partly by the same way everybody else managed to select people who weren’t first or second generation migrants.
One of the reasons the JGH hospital exists is because Jewish doctors wished to blatantly discriminate against non-Jewish doctors. Like RC nursing establishments blatantly discriminated against Prod doctors. Like everybody blatantly discriminated against Black doctors and nurses. The Jewish doctors and community weren’t inhuman in some kind of special magical anti-tribalism. And when we are talking about Jewish doctors in the 1920’s, we aren’t talking about piece-workers in the garment district: these are upper class members of the establishment, who had money and influence. They started their own hospital.
We’re straying a little off-topic here, but keeping the subject to Jewish hospitals, here is the story of an incident in Montreal in which a Jewish doctor was accusing of taking away a Catholic doctor’s job. Days of Shame - Wikipedia
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Thanks for the correction. The explanation I gave was always what I had been told.
I live in a city with a large Muslim presence.
Friday lunchtime is Mosque time, and though there is no law about it, many of my collegues would take lunch break to answer the call to prayer.
I’m not religious, but I liked the fact that HR was fine if my colleagues were a little late coming back from the Mosque.
HR better be fine with it or they’d be rightfully sued. A similar example in my experience is longer lunches on Ash Wednesday.
To be fair, the non-muslims would occasionally take a “long lunch” on a Friday too. Just with less religion and more beer. And burgers.
There’s a relatively new mosque in my neighborhood. When they opened their doors (probably ca 2019), they had an open house, and welcomed the community to take a look around. We are not Muslim, nor are we Christian. We are pretty avowed agnostics tending toward atheism, but we went to show our support for their right to be in our community. There had been a lot of pushback at every level of their development/permitting, and we wanted them to know they were as welcome as the mega(Christian) church just down the road. One of their leaders - not sure what his title, or even if he had one (he may have been a member of their administrative board) said their Friday prayers typically only take about an hour, so if any employers had members of his congregation disappear at lunchtime for prayer and never came back for the rest of the day, they had his permission to have a supervisor-employee chat!
Not in Quebec. My wife was working for the Ministry of Education and the union contract called for three discretionary days of leave each year. She tried to use one to take off for Yom Kippur. Her immediate superior approved, but some functionary in the ministry disallowed it say that these discretionary were at the discretion of the employer. Her superior tried to argue but to no avail and she finally used a vacation day.
One of my friends got a big Christmas bonus for his summer-break job. Equivalent pay for working Friday afternoons, at a workplace where the standard working conditions were that none of the working stiffs actually got back to work until sign-off on a Friday afternoon.