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Despite that factor, the driving bans have grievously hurt some European businesses. Sunday revenues of German hotels and restaurants have dropped as much as 30% to 70% since Sabbath driving was forbidden three weeks ago. The picturesque villages on the left bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz look all but deserted of tourists on Sundays. The Swiss ski industry is suffering; after two carless Sundays, crowds are thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government...
...week the ceasefire was bringing some relaxation. On Friday, many soldiers were heading home on leave for the Sabbath. Lottery vendors were again doing a brisk business, as were the policemen who resumed the issuing of parking tickets, which they had suspended during the fighting. Traffic once more started clogging the city's center...
...kind of black humor. One joke that circulated through the capital had Sadat ordering an attack and his commanders offering up an excuse for every day of the week. Saturday's excuse, ironically: it was scarcely proper to launch an attack against Israel on the Jewish sabbath...
...marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, home of many ultra-Orthodox Jews, young men wearing dark frock coats and prayer curls regularly hurl stones at buses that tour the sector on the Sabbath, violating what they consider...
PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE. Sabbath Table Talk, "Eastern Religions and Judaism". Prof. Benjamin Schwartz, sponsored by Hillel House...