"...The Toronto university has canceled classes on Rosh HaShanah and Yom
Kippur for 34 years. All along it has stressed that students of any
religious background can ask to be excused from classes for a religious
holiday. The ruling is seen as vindicating York history professor David
Noble, who is Jewish and has complained for years that it is unfair to
cancel classes for Jewish students but not for those of other faiths. A
recent report by another York professor shows that 5.8 percent of the
university's 51,000 students are Jewish...."
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107809.html
Meanwhile Jonathan Kay writes a subtle threat of job-loss in the National
Post:
"...This case has definitively established that York professor David Noble
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the complainant who got this issue taken up by the Ontario HRC - is quite
possibly the most annoying person in Canadian academia (and that is really
saying something). I have no idea how this guy finds time to teach, since
his life at York seems to consist of an endless series of tedious activist
campaigns against Israel, corporate sponsorship, and the university that
provides him with paid employment...."
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/03/31/jonathan-kay-on-human-rights-commissions-behaving-badly-the-latest-chapter.aspx
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