Word: hashannah
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Putting a menorah next to a Christmas tree is not a significant way of giving Jewish concerns parity with Christian ones. Canceling classes on Rosh Hashannah would be a reasonable way to balance the public celebration of Christmas with Jewish concerns. While that might not necessarily be the best policy to adopt (all holidays of all religions couldn’t be similarly honored), such an action makes more sense from within a Jewish context than putting menorahs next to Christmas trees. Hanukkah and Christmas are juxtaposed by the calendar most years, yet they stand at opposite poles of importance...
This bitter truth was brought home for Dartboard while heading to New York in honor of Rosh Hashannah, the first of two holidays focused on repentance. Our formerly Israeli cab driver had a lovely chat with us about attending religious services for the holiday. Once at Logan Airport, our cabbie informed us of a curious new tradition--charging the passenger for the cabbie's ride back alone to Cambridge. Dartboard had no time to quibble; we suffered our rip-off quietly...
...only the Jews who wish to emigrate who are harrassed Many Soviet Jews recount incidents of K G B agents not only raiding secret Hebrew classes, threatening the teachers with imprisonment and interrogating children of kindergarten age. In October, on the eve of the Rosh Hashannah. Soviet police forcibly disperse the thousands of Jews who had gathered outside the synagogue on Archipove street to sing and dance. In the last year there has been a dramatic increase in the number of anti-Semitic books and articles published and therefore sanctioned by the government. Universities have begun to give separate...
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