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...have been taken, which are crippling the whole society here," John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, told TIME on Sunday. "It's a tinderbox, this place, ready to explode at any time." After a cross-border attack on the recent Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Israeli army released a statement warning that it would "respond harshly to any attempt to break the calm in Israel's southern communities." (See a video of Gazans celebrating the end of Ramadan...
...Since then, Harvard has tried to address this troubled past. In 1958, Memorial Church opened its doors to all religions. The first non-Christian service happened eight years later, for Rosh Hashanah—many Reform Jews still attend services there. Muslim students have used its facilities for prayer, too, although this has changed since they acquired a prayer space in a prime location, the basement of Canaday Hall...
...Rabbi Hazan?” I asked meekly as I opened the door and 17 surprised faces met my sheepish one. It was Rosh Hashanah and I was Jewish in Rome, home of all things Catholic.An Orthodox woman dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and below-the-knee skirt approached the door. She looked confused. “I spoke to Moshe,” I said. A pause.“Moshe? Chi è Moshe?” she said.Earlier that week, I had phoned Rome’s Chabad House, a chapter of the movement that promotes...
...devout Jew, Emanuel was so intent on negotiating the passage of Congress's $700 billion-bailout bill that he got a special waiver from his rabbi to work through Rosh Hashanah...
...doesn’t become the next president of the United States,” comedian Sarah Silverman says in her YouTube video advertisement for The Great Schlep, “I’m gonna blame the Jews.” In September, when I went home for Rosh Hashanah and told my family that I supported Obama, I heard a very different ultimatum: If Barack Obama does become the next president of the United States, they’re going to blame the Jews. Orthodox Jews like my parents are an often overlooked demographic, even for organizations like...