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...realize this is a bad time to ask for a favor with the Book of Life coming up for renewal and all, but the situation is crucial. Now I understand Saturday is Rosh Hashanah--one of the highest of High Holy Days, and I should be in temple; but you've got to understand it's also the Harvard season opener against Columbia...
...Rosh Hashanah last week marked the first day of 5738 according to the Jewish calendar, but it was not a happy new year in Israel. In Egypt, meanwhile, a smiling President Anwar Sadat declared that it was the best gift he had received for Bairam, the joyful Muslim festival that follows the month-long Ramadan fast. The gift-and the cause of Israeli gloom -was a U.S. policy statement issued by the State Department to the effect that Palestinians "must be represented" at any reconvened Geneva peace talks. Coming on the eve of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's visit...
...rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. The Creation itself was achieved in the autumn, according to a tradition of Judaism-whence the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, at summer's end or the start of fall. The suspicion that even God is partial to autumn has overwhelmed others, including John Donne, who enthused: "In Heaven, it is always Autumn...
...hours later, Rabin flew to Rosh Pina in northern Israel to make what had become, in effect, the opening stump speech in his campaign for reelection. In flight, he discussed his decisions with TIME's David Halevy, who has known Rabin since 1968. "I have fulfilled my duty as Premier," he told Halevy. "Believe me, the actions taken by the N.R.P. ministers would have interfered with Israel's democratic system. It was my duty, therefore, to ask for their resignations. Democracy is more important than one officeholder...
...Christian she feels "excluded" both by the United States and from a part of the University which she considers her home. Nonsense. It is her choice to disdain Christianity and there is nothing wrong with that. Further, Harvard should avoid conflicts such as the one involving Freshman registration and Rosh Hashanah. But to contend that because not all students here are Christian members of that faith should be prohibited from expressing their sentiments in public decorations is a mischievous perversion of the concept of rights of the minority. Steve Boutwell...