Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath," Jesus admonished the Pharisees. This week Boston's venerable Unitarian King's Chapel will begin an experiment that might shock more than Pharisees: repeating Sunday's service on Thursday night for churchgoers who would rather spend Sunday playing golf, painting screens or driving bumper to bumper...
...then, this spring, as not too radical a solution, extend Sunday morning worship opportunity into the week? Free the conscience of individuals for enjoyment of the long weekend by repeating the Sunday service and sermon the following Thursday night. In the spirit of Jesus, we might say: the sabbath was made for man-especially in New England in the springtime...
...factor, Snyder suggests, is not how much Jews drink but how. From the eighth day of his life, when he is circumcised, the Orthodox Jewish boy is surrounded by religious ceremonies (Redemption of the Firstborn, Bar Mitzvah) that involve the drinking of wine. In addition to holy days, each Sabbath brings three Orthodox rituals involving wine. Excess is avoided because "drinking thus occurs in the presence of the most powerful sanctions in Orthodox Jewish life." If so, does drunkenness increase among Jews as they leave the Orthodox faith? Snyder's statistics indicate that there is a slight trend...
...looked like a holiday. In their Sabbath best, 57,000 ladies' dressmakers poured from their cubicle workrooms one day* last week and onto the pavement of twelve mid-Manhattan blocks along and around Seventh Avenue, the throbbing heart of the New York City garment trade that produces 72% of all U.S. dresses. Babbling happily in the accents of Poland, Puerto Rico, Italy and Brooklyn, they marched half a mile up Eighth...
...Jerusalem's largest school, the Rehavia Gymnasium: "Children who reached school age after the creation of Israel had no interest in the Jewish past, in Jewish literature, in Jewish religion." At the Youth Congress in Moscow last summer, Israeli delegates were embarrassed before their fellow Jews at a Sabbath service when the youngster called up to read the week's passage of Scripture did not have the faintest idea what he was expected...