Happy Rosh Hashanah, Merry Christmas?

With the the Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashanah this week, I was wondering how your approach communicating happy holidays at your communities. Do you feel comfortable referring to a specific holiday in your communications (e.g. emails, website, social media, newsletters, signs)? Or do you stick with the generic terms like "holidays".

Jackie--I'm a big ol' chicken when it comes to specifically naming holidays. We all have been trained to be inclusive and warned against using anything that could violate Fair Housing (this is especially true with any holiday that has religious origins), but on a basic customer-service level, we don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. In any official communications (newsletters, Facebook, etc.) stick with the politically correct and safe "Happy Holidays" (and you will stay out of trouble!) Good luck--and Happy Holidays!

Oh my gosh am I going to get in trouble. I say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, and believe in the the American flag, and pretty much reprimanded an assistant (practicing Quaker) I told her that she should say Happy Birthday to someone when they tell you it's their birthday. Why? Because it's the POLITE thing to do.

I phrased it this way - you recently got a promotion that you were so excited over and telling everyone and all congratulated you.

What if you were telling people about it and no one congratulated or even acknowledged you. How would you feel?

Essentially, stop making everything about you.