Word: eight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College permit students to string electrical wires around windows and over dead tinder--leaving them there 24 hours a day for a whole month--at the same time that it does not permit Jewish students to responsibly light and watch over menorahs for one hour on each of the eight nights of Hannukah? Is the College so sure that menorahs are a worse fire hazard...
...have Advent wreaths anyway? In contrast, the menorah is a necessary possession of practicing Jews. When Hannukah originated over 2,100 years ago, the Israelites miraculously annihilated the armies of Antiochus and then miraculously had enough pure oil to keep the menorah in the otherwise destroyed Temple burning for eight days. Jews have been kindling menorahs at Hannukah for centuries and centuries. Traditional Jewish law even commands us to do it--most preferably in the place where we live...
...into college for the first time. Despite the early and late move in times available to Jewish students, barely any of us managed to spend the holiday in synagogue as we are supposed to. Our parents, meanwhile, missed out on both synagogue prayers and gatherings with friends and relatives. Eight days later, fresh off the 26-hour fast of Yom Kippur, I, like every other Jewish first-year, had to shove down my break-the-fast meal and then rush off to a required Yard meeting that started a half-hour late anyway. Now, for the third time this year...
...both foil and epee competitions, Harvard claimed eight bouts. In sabre, it hung on for a 6-3 advantage...
...women have won seven of the last eight Ivy championships. The men are hoping to capture their 10th straight...