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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...
...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...
...ROSH HASHANAH, the Jewish New Year. The scene is a middle-class. Brookline synagogue, but it probably could be one of any number of temples around the United States. The voice from the pulpit is determined, and as the speech continues, it becomes deeply passionate and, at times, strident...
...book-part classical theology, part cracker-barrel, self-help philosophy. But when an excerpt appeared in Redbook in the October 1981 issue, it made the author a national figure. Kushner, 47, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., remembers the turning point well: "It was Rosh Hashana. We had just come home from services and were very tired. Suddenly the phone started ringing off the wall. All afternoon long. And from non-Jews, not realizing it was a Jewish high holy day. These were phone calls from people with problems...
...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...