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Since Jan. 1, 2000, falls on the Jewish Sabbath, New Year's Eve will be quiet in the western part of Jerusalem. But Bethlehem is planning a two-week ecumenical Holy Nights festival that starts Dec. 24 and ends Jan. 7, Orthodox Christmas on the Julian calendar...
...wife and I, who not that long ago were suspected of being part of The Eastern Media Elite, have been transformed into The American People. Surveys on the White House scandal reflect our views precisely. When the Sunday talk-show commentators whom I refer to as the Sabbath Gasbags pontificate confidently on how The American People are going to respond, the Gasbags are always wrong. In January my wife and I sometimes had to wait for a survey result to find that out. Not anymore. We now realize...
Blue laws are a vestige of Massachusetts' Puritan heritage, intended to protect the Christian Sabbath as a day of rest. In today's secular and diverse society, they are increasingly irrelevant. Clinging to these laws not only fails to recognize the changing religious practices of the state and the country, but also fails to recognize the proper limitations of the laws themselves...
...state government has no business legislating when, how, or if we observe the Sabbath. By putting the religious mores of one faith into law, Massachusetts is violating the spirit of the principle of separation of church and state. While laws requiring once-a-week shop closings in general might serve the nominally secular purpose of providing a day of rest (an aim sanctioned by the Supreme Court), the alcohol law imparts a specific religious judgement about drinking on Sundays which the state is in no position to make. Those who wish to observe the Sabbath by not drinking alcohol...
...majority? Israel's Zionist founders were almost exclusively secular--in many respects, antireligious--and they saw Judaism principally as a nationality. But in deference to tradition, and as a way of securing the support of the Orthodox minority, they made certain concessions to religion: restricting commerce on the Jewish Sabbath, for instance, and leaving such matters as marriage and burial in the exclusive hands of rabbinical authorities. In the past 20 years, religious political parties extracted further allowances as they joined various government coalitions...