Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That mythological gatekeeper would be scanning the want ads today, according to a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Israeli members of the large and powerful Hasidic movement Habad are convinced that at any moment, the Redeemer will arrive in Jerusalem. In a burst of fervor, they have erected yellow billboards across Israel, instructing passersby to PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. Bumper stickers carry the same message, as do electrified signs atop Habad cars. A full-page ad announcing "The Time for Your Redemption Has Arrived" has run in the New York Times, and Habad speakers have been crisscrossing...
...Schneerson's followers are "eaters of trayf," food such as pork that is forbidden to Jews. Other detractors fret that Habad's Messianic passions will provoke a schism in Judaism or lead to mass disillusionment, driving believers from the fold. Says philosopher Rabbi David Hartman: "The outpouring of Messianic fervor is always a very disturbing development...
...icon of American feminism, has not turned her back on the women's movement. Quite the contrary. She has come of age with a 377-page credo on the potency of self-esteem that is rooted in nearly three decades of social activism, embraces men and women with equal fervor, and neatly hooks into the national quest for the self. With her No. 1 best seller, Revolution from Within, she has vaulted back into the public fray. "Maybe I should have done this earlier in my life," she says candidly, "but I was so tired, burned out and distant from...
...tower was redesigned to hold the bells, and President Lowell hired a Russian, Sergiev, to care for them. Sergiev's duties includes tuning and playing the bells, and he took to the task with fervor. While Turk claims that the bells "could not be tuned," they in fact could, and this is why Sergiev field notches into the bells: this is the only method of tuning bronze bells...
...First Fervor turned into a campaign against the power of Satan...