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Valentine’s Day?   That’s what everyone says it is.  (It’s also the 19th day of Sh’vat.)

Except, in my tradition, this was a holiday celebrated by others.  Given the official name for the day as “Saint Valentine’s Day”, it should surprise no one that it was not part of my routine growing up. A child going to yeshiva (a Jewish [very] religious school) is not to be considering any day involving saints as pertaining to them.  (That’s true, regardless of Hallmark’s yeoman efforts to make us all forget that first word of the celebration.)

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Today is Valentine’s Day.

I grew up with this being a day celebrated by others.  After all, it is “Saint Valentine’s Day” .(I know that Hallmark has been working overtime to make us all forget that first word in the title.)  And, a child going to yeshiva (a Jewish [very] religious school) is not to be considering any day involving saints.

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