Word: riting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...omitted too. It seemed overly Zionist to many Reform Jews of the time. The diligent preparations for Passover were given short shrift. Discussing the traditional pre-Seder search for hametz (the leavened, potentially leavened and leaven-tainted food that must be removed from use during Passover), the 1923 rite condescendingly described it as "a quaint ceremony ... still observed by the Orthodox Jews...
...confessions, the rules encourage the use of a room set aside for the purpose, require that the priest greet the penitent warmly with a reminder of God's forgiving nature, and read a passage of Scripture with a reconciliation theme. The new norms stress the sacrament as a rite of "reconciliation" between the sinner, his neighbor and his God, and try to give that conciliatory flavor to the encounter between priest and penitent...
...Neill was also invited to take part in another congressional rite reserved for the elite-the late-night poker games involving some of the top leaders on the Hill. O'Neill more than held his own; he had helped earn his way through Boston College by playing poker. In one night of good hands, recalls O'Neill, a man could win $400. "Nobody ever got hurt," says O'Neill...
LOWELL HOUSE JCR: Recital for Two Pianos. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Saint-Saens: Scherzp, Op. 87, Brahms: Haydn Variations, Op. 56b, Jan. 20 at 3, free...
...truth" of a doctrine should not be determined by how well it sticks to orthodoxy or past formulations. The question should be, does this teaching or rite lock people in stupefying bondage? Or does it contribute "to the fuller consciousness, the joy, the maturation and the emancipation...