Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sukkoth, the planners decided, is the ideal festival for promoting Jewish-Christian reconciliation. It is the only one of three obligatory Jewish pilgrim festivals in the Bible that was not supplanted in Christianity (Passover became Easter, and the Feast of Weeks became Pentecost Sunday). The seven-day festival stressed repentance for Christendom's past sins against Jews. Explained the program: "Though we may not be accountable personally for the historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People...
...world nears, according to the biblical prophet Zechariah, visitors from many nations will gather each year in Jerusalem "to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles." The words took life last week as 3,000 people from 35 countries celebrated Tabernacles, or Sukkoth, with parades, cookouts and musical services in one of the Holy City's most spectacular religious events of the year. Significantly, the celebrants were Christians...
...missionary-minded Evangelicals who organized the International Christian Celebration During the Feast of Tabernacles, planned as an annual opportunity "to rejoice before the Lord and to stand and support the Jewish people and comfort Zion." So said the Rev. Johann Lukoff, 42, a Dutch Reformed South African who directs the festival and the related International Christian Embassy...
...countrymen, but also because the state of emergency left people uneasy about venturing into the streets. There were no roadblocks. No extraordinary military presence was visible except around a few key installations and buildings. Stores stayed open late as Cairenes shopped for 'Id al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice. Only on the morning of the funeral was there a street demonstration. Said a student: "Something is destroyed inside of me. He is gone, I'm here. That...
...precise in their meaning as equations in physics. Thus when a State Department spokesman described last week's meeting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as "frank and businesslike," his listeners knew that the session may not have been a love feast, but that some progress had been made. At the first high-level dialogue between the two superpowers in twelve months, and the first for the Reagan Administration, Haig and Gromyko soberly spelled out each nation's grievances with a minimum of posturing and propagandizing. "They were not red-faced," said...