What holidays are you celebrating in September?

Sure, the American's had Labor Day, and there are the religious observances of beginning Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah next week. But I bet the are more. Asked by Reaver 51 months ago Similar questions: holidays celebrating September Society > Religion & Spirituality.

September 11: Not a holiday, but an observance On September 11, I will be displaying flags from my window, on my apartment door, and on my car in solidarity with my fellow citizens and in memory of those killed in the infamous 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in the plane crash in Pennsylvania, which aborted an attack on Washington, D.C. The word "celebrate" in its purest form doesn't necessarily mean to have a joyful party, but it is too easily misunderstood, which is why I am "observing" 9-11. By the way, I display my flag in those three places only on this day and on national holidays. Displaying our flags all the time incurs the risk of making the flag too commonplace and not noticed..

Quite a few! The Jewish calendar is filled with holidays and festivals. Loads of them usually take place in September (depending on the lunar calendar, which is used to determine the dates of the Jewish holidays).

They include: Rosh Hashanah (New Year) - a time of introspection and of acknowledgment that God runs the world; the Day of Judgment, a day of somber joy For more information, click here: aish.com/hhRosh/hhRoshDefault/ Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) - a day of fasting, where we acknowledge our mistakes and pray for forgiveness For more information, click here: aish.com/hhYomK/hhYomKDefault/ Sukkot (Festival of Booths) - when we eat - some even sleep! - in temporary huts to remind us of God’s love and protection For more information, click here: http://www.aish.com/holidays/sukkot/default.asp Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah - when we celebrate the gift of having a Torah-inspired life For more information, click here: http://www.aish.com/sukkotshmini/sukkotshminidefault/ (I want to acknowledge that my answer is part of another answer I shared a while back at http://askville.amazon.com/Jewish-feasts-celebrated/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=3921738 ) Sources: www.aish.com .

We celebrate Grandparents Day in our home! Tomorrow is National Grandparents Day! We try to celebrate it every year, so our kids, who are teenagers, will appreciate their grandparents now rather than looking back years from now and thinking, "I wish I spent more time with my grandparents!" as so many of us do.

Sadly, we are down to just two grandparents -- my mother and stepfather. So, we are taking them out to dinner and a play tonight, to show our love and appreciation! Here's the website for National Grandparents Day: grandparents-day.com/ Rickisgirl's Recommendations Grandchildren Spoiled Here!

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Banned Books Week I was a bookseller for a number of years, and loved doing the displays and publicity around Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met. As the Intellectual Freedom Manual (ALA, 7th edition) states: “Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas in any form they deem appropriate; and second, that society makes an equal commitment to the right of unrestricted access to information and ideas regardless of the communication medium used, the content of the work, and the viewpoints of both the author and receiver of information.

Freedom to express oneself through a chosen mode of communication, including the Internet, becomes virtually meaningless if access to that information is not protected. Intellectual freedom implies a circle, and that circle is broken if either freedom of expression or access to ideas is stifled. ” Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) is asked why the week is called “Banned Books Week” instead of “Challenged Books Week,” since the majority of the books featured during the week are not banned, but “merely” challenged.

There are two reasons. One, ALA does not “own” the name Banned Books Week, but is just one of several cosponsors of BBW; therefore, ALA cannot change the name without all the cosponsors agreeing to a change. Two, none want to do so, primarily because a challenge is an attempt to ban or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group.

A successful challenge would result in materials being banned or restricted. Although they were the targets of attempted bannings, most of the books featured during BBW were not banned, thanks to the efforts of librarians to maintain them in their collections. (See also Censorship and Challenges and Notable First Amendment Cases.) Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.

To assist in planning the weeklong celebration, each year a BBW kit is developed. This kit includes three posters, 100 bookmarks, a button and a Resource Guide, which contains suggested activities and ideas for a BBW celebration. Moreover, the Resource Guide contains an annotated list of challenged or banned books and is an excellent reference for conducting research on censorship.

(Since 2001, the Resource Guide is published every three years. Between new editions, kits include one List of Books Challenged or Banned since the last BBW.) Often challenges are motivated by a desire to protect children from “inappropriate” sexual content or “offensive” language. Although this is a commendable motivation, Free Access to Libraries for Minors, an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights (ALA's basic policy concerning access to information) states that, “Librarians and governing bodies should maintain that parents—and only parents—have the right and the responsibility to restrict the access of their children—and only their children—to library resources.

” Censorship by librarians of constitutionally protected speech, whether for protection or for any other reason, violates the First Amendment.As Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in Texas v. Johnson, said most eloquently: “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

If we are to continue to protect our First Amendment, we would do well to keep in mind these words of Noam Chomsky: “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ” Or these words of "Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (The One Un-American Act."

Nieman Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, Jan.1953, p.20): “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

” For more information on Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, please contact the American Library Association/Office for Intellectual Freedom at 1-800-545-2433, ext.4220, or [email protected]. Sources: http://www. Ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.

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In September I celebrate three days: Labor Day, 9th of 9, and the Autumnal Equinox Well Labor Day because it is a transistional holiday between summer and autumn; 9th of 9, because it is the 9th day of the ninth month and helps me appreciate each new month. (I celebrate each month in similiar fashion, in October it will be 10 of 10th) and the Equinox begins my favorite season. What are yours?.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.