Word: fall
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...wife quickly found an extra chair. We were mishpacha, and when in Rome, we scooted our chairs closer and celebrated the Jewish New Year together. I am from a very Jewish hometown, I attend a Hillel-friendly university, and I studied in Jerusalem last summer. But during my fall semester abroad, I found myself living 20 minutes from the Vatican. Beginning with that fateful Rosh Hashanah dinner, as I traveled around Europe, I felt more Jewish, more connected to my mishpacha, than I ever had before.In Paris, I spent an afternoon searching for Goldenberg?...
...anything but make calls," says the fashion consultant in Watertown, Mass. - but she stays logged on to Facebook all day at work and then spends an hour or two - or lately three - at night checking in with old acquaintances, swapping photos with close friends and instant-messaging those who fall somewhere in between. "It makes you feel like you're part of something even if you're neglecting people in the flesh," she says. (See the 50 best websites...
...Many critics who are outraged by Warren's role in the Inauguration have unfairly painted him as a leader in last fall's campaign for Proposition 8, the controversial California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. It's not as if Warren cut commercials for Prop. 8 or traveled the state urging its passage. But neither was he the silent bystander that some of his defenders have claimed. Less than a month before the election, Warren e-mailed a statement to his 30,000 members declaring, "There is no doubt where we should stand on this issue," and urged...
...southwestern coast and then seek work there or in the Muslim promised land of Malaysia. On Dec. 28, 98 of them were found drifting by India's remote Andaman Islands, starving and dehydrated, a picture of the hardship weathered by generations of boat people fleeing adversity only to fall into even greater trials...
...Proponents of the third runway justify such sacrifices in the name of competitiveness: Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, attracted around 67 million passengers last year. That's down 1.4% since 2007 and is expected to fall further this year, but Future Heathrow, a coalition of businesses and trade unions with interests in the aviation community, says additional capacity will be needed further down the line. "The U.K. needs to fight in the global market like any other country, and that market has gotten a lot tougher recently," says Baroness Jo Valentine, the chief executive of London First, a lobby group...