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...think it's not convenient because a lot ofJews are going to be travelling home to theirfamilies that weekend," said David A. Nacht '87.The celebration falls between Rosh Hashanah andYom Kippur, which begins at sundown October 12,the last day of events...
...spent most of Rosh Hashanah hanging out in the Sports Cube, ate junk food on Yom Kippur, but you can be sure I was appropriately reverent when Guy Lafleur came over the boards and left a spray of snow as he dashed toward the Detroit Red Wings...
Israel's newspapers reflected the mood. For the Jerusalem Post, this year's Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) would be remembered as "the Rosh Hashanah of shame," for "we have all been made accomplices to the horrible massacre in West Beirut." The conservative Ma'ariv observed: "By our presence [in West Beirut] we have become indirectly responsible for the awful pogrom committed there." As the left-wing Al Hamishmar saw it, "This slaughter has made the war in Lebanon the greatest disaster to befall the Jewish people since the Holocaust...
...storm rose, Begin did not back off an inch. Scarcely two hours after the Rosh Hashanah observances ended Sunday evening, he called a Cabinet meeting that issued a statement briefly expressing "grief and regret" concerning the killings, but mainly trying to refute accusations of Israeli guilt. The statement declared that Israel was the victim of a "blood libel" and that "malicious and evil" allegations were being made against the nation. The Israeli government took out a full-page ad in several U.S. papers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, to stress Israel's innocence. In an effort...
...late Saturday, the full impact of the events in Beirut was being felt throughout the world. Israel was virtually shut down for celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The government was also preoccupied with a new outburst of anti-Jewish terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris that wounded more than 40 people. As a result, though the government promised to conduct an inquiry, official reaction was slow and confused. A military spokesman claimed that Phalangist forces had broken into the Shatila camp and started a fight, and the Israeli troops had intervened; shots were exchanged between Phalangists...