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...Some have wondered if non-practicing Jew Harriet T. Vostock ‘02’s relationship with Hillel parliamentarian Avi C. Nehumi ’02 has rekindled her spiritual flame. “Nope,” responded Vostock, using a microwave on the Sabbath to heat up her meal of milk-battered pork-fried...
Among Joe Lieberman's worries last Friday was how late the Florida Supreme Court's ruling would come and how early it gets dark these winter days. He had consulted his rabbi about whether he could concede on the Sabbath. As it turned out, Lieberman had to worry not about a concession speech at that point but about whether to indulge - after so far resisting the impulse to either celebrate or grieve - in a moment of relief more passing than he could ever have imagined...
Solely on the basis of his output over the past 10 or so years--which also includes the uproarious Operation Shylock (1993); the brooding, death-haunted Sabbath's Theater (1995); and the terse, erotic The Dying Animal, published in May--Roth, 68, would win much support as America's best working novelist. Who else during the same period published so much of such consistently high quality? Even more remarkably, Roth has maintained this elevated standard for more than 40 years, a creative marathon that totals 20 books of fiction. Not all of these are masterpieces, but all are unfailingly ambitious...
...commander turned Roman military aide who lived in the years A.D. 30 to A.D. 100. For instance, a stone found later near the Temple's likely site was inscribed with the words TO THE PLACE OF TRUMPETING, which corroborate Josephus' description of the signal for the beginning of the Sabbath...
...Like all Massachusetts theaters, though, the Brattle closed on Sundays, subject to a 'blue law' that prohibited the screening of films on the Sabbath...