sorry, but she is choosing to use her vacation blocks to accommodate her religious holidays over her wedding..she can't get "extra" days because she has decided to have her once in a lifetime experience during her residency...she is going to have to pick...wedding or religious holidays..OR she could have her wedding within the 2 week block she is taking for her religious holiday...OR she waits to get married when there are no limits to her time.
and it is not typical for a program to make one take their vacations as 2 week blocks...some do, some don't.
out of curiosity...what religious event takes 2 weeks?
The Sept-Oct Jewish Holidays take longer than 2 weeks. There's 2 days at the beginning (Rosh Hashanah) you aren't allowed to work, one day eight days later (Yom Kippur), 2 days five days after that (Sukkot) and yet another day a week later. That's 6 days in a ~20 day period, not counting any saturdays in there which are extra days. The actual "High Holy Days" are only Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but that's still 3 days over a 10 day period. Definitely doesn't fit in a week.
Getting married during that period is hard, because (if I remember right), you can't do it between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and while you can do it between Kippur and Sukkot, if that falls over a weekend you are running out of days to do it. Looking ahead in the calendar, the only option during that block at all for a heavily observant Jew to get married would probably be Thursday, Sept 24 (or Sunday, Sept 27... but that's still a Sunday). Doing it before Rosh Hashanah is probably more doable most of the time, except that this year Rosh Hashanah is a Monday, so that won't work.
The other period is Passover (Pesach), which is an eight day holiday. The first two and the last two days are also ones you can't work. That's four days over an eight day period, still not counting the Saturday which is probably in the middle of that period. I don't know about the rules regarding those middle 4 days and weddings. If you're taking a 2 week block, the 6 days before/after are probably easier, but per mom above, they don't want to wait for the spring.
There's another couple non-working holidays stuck that aren't in either of those periods, but those are the big ones.
(Note: I'm not the least bit religious, though I've had friends over the years who are. Take what I said with a grain of salt, because there's rules upon rules and I only know some of them).