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...Today it's open for debate. Seeking to reassure their students by any means necessary, schools across the country are turning more openly to God. Attendance surged at this year's annual See You at the Pole celebration, where Christian teens congregate at their school flagpoles for a sunrise prayer session. Such gatherings, which transpire outside of school hours, are constitutionally sound. But the same spirit is seeping into the school day. Some teachers are broadcasting morning blessings over the p.a. system or praying with distraught students. "My students and employees have been praying openly...
...will prevail in the struggle in which we are now engaged because we will not succumb to the temptation of nihilism,” Summers said during the morning prayer service. “And despite what has happened, we will cherish the ideals on which this University and our nation were founded all the more...
Later that day, Summers addressed a regular Friday prayer meeting for Harvard’s Muslim community in Lowell Lecture Hall, emphasizing the University’s commitment to its Islamic students...
...point during the special worship-study service commemorating the start of Yom Kippur, Summers and Galper held up Torah scrolls as Rabbi Norman Janis chanted a Hebrew prayer...
...sure he wasn’t alone,” jokes Jay M. Harris, Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, who claims there is a great Jewish tradition of falling asleep during prayer...