Deaf organizations still continue to schedule their events that conflict with Jewish Holidays… Passover falls on Friday evening, April 10th this year. We know of two events, so far, that interfere with Jewish people who are involved in these events and may miss their family or community seders:

Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles, CA starts ROMEO and JULIET; Circus Verona on April 2 – May 10.

Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre will be doing a full Equity production of Stephen Sachs’ SWEET NOTHING IN MY EAR opening on April 4 through May 24.

New Jersey Deaf Awareness Week, Inc. had planned to host their next DEAF FEST on September 12, 1999 which is during Yom Kippur. This has been brought to President Phil Jacob’s attention and they are investigating how this happened.