Has NC ‘Pridefest’ Solved Its Yom Kippur Scheduling Snafu?
A float in the NC Pride parade in Durham, NC, in 2014. Image by Anya ulinich, NCPride.org
By Ari Feldman July 20, 2017
When the date for this year’s North Carolina Pride parade — September 30 — was announced, it was met with backlash from the local Jewish community: That’s the same day as Yom Kippur. But now organizers of NC Pride’s 2017 Pridefest event have a solution for their scheduling snafu.
They just haven’t told people what it is yet.
Though the organization promised to spend the weekend of July 8-9 coming up with a solution, this week a Durham newspaper reported that details are still being finalized.
“Several of the events will be changed, and everyone will be able to attend. There will be changes to a number of events. Everyone will be able to attend our new schedule,” John Short, a spokesman for NC Pride, told the Herald-Sun.
“This will be a situation that everyone will be able to attend the events,” Short added.
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