Yonkers, NY - Yom Tov Mailing from City Hall Puzzles Some Residents

Yonkers, NY - A Jewish Yom Tov (holiday) card sent from the mayor's office to 4,200 city households left some recipients wondering when they converted to Judaism.

The city mailed the cards in observance of the Jewish holiday through a data company that regularly provides demographic information to the city. Some non-Jews who received the cards called City Hall to inquire why they were sent the greetings.
"I think they were a little curious as to why they would get something like that," said city spokesman David Simpson, adding that the half-dozen or so calls were not angry. "It took a simple explanation that far less than one percent went out to non-Jewish households, which is a pretty acceptable margin of error."