Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school decisions came just one week after the high court struck down by an 8-to-1 vote a Connecticut law that gave workers an absolute right to take their Sabbath day off, and four weeks after the court voted 6 to 3 to invalidate an Alabama law that allowed a moment of silence for prayer in the public schools. The Reagan Administration was on the losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service...
...cottage on the beach next door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading on the porch with her mother. Soon, the exoticism of the yarmulkas, the Sabbath rituals and the dietary restrictions, attract Ilana and draw her near so that when she returns to Brooklyn...
...piece of "great literature." Other writers have covered the sarne era more adroitly and many of the characters, especially the adults, seem a bit cliche. Still. I found myself moved by the sympathetic portrayals of seemingly minor events in the book: weddings, births, the lighting of the Sabbath candles. Here, it's the little things that count. Writing about a century best defined by the word mass--mass, culture, mass movements, mass destruction--Potok has lived up to the novelist's task and reaffirmed, amidst all the tragedy, the dignity of an individual life...
...thought. Some Labor ministers in the government, including Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, are in fact in favor of completing the pullout earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column and, as the Israelis passed, exploded. An open "safari" truck was reduced to a pile of smoldering metal, with twelve of the troopers aboard killed. It was the worst...
Because of the Sabbath, Reagan's schedule on the first day of his second term was kept deliberately low key: a 45-minute prayer service at the National Cathedral, to be followed by the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. In the late afternoon, the President was due at the Jefferson Memorial to attend the National Pageant of Young Americans, one of several Inaugural events designed to increase the participation of incipient Republicans...