Word: yom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over 1500 people squeezed into the pews, aisles, and stairways of Memorial Church Sunday night to attend Conservative services for the Yom Kippur holiday...
...large attendence is part of a trend that has seen the number of Jews attending Yom Kippur services at Harvard double in the last six years, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday...
...Sept. 28, I came to University Hall in order to convey to the Administration my great distress over the fact that regular classes were scheduled for Monday, Oct. 4, despite the fact that it is Yom Kippur...
...public school teacher. I have experienced, as this week has begun, a tremendous surge of excitement in returning here. I want to do as well as I can. I believe it is unjust and unwarranted that I and many fellow Jews are obliged to miss important early classes for Yom Kippur. It further rankles that classes are scheduled on Yom Kippur, a day that is sacred to a significant percentage of the Harvard community, but not scheduled on Columbus Day, which is a meaningless holiday to nearly everyone...
...claim of neutrality is actually a mask for a value judgement: if Yom Kippur were judged to be a pressing enough matter, then it would be obvious that a significant problem exists, one that ought to be dealt with respectfully--and openly. The implied condescension in the current policy becomes apparent by considering a rough analogy, viz. inviting a group of people from another culture to stay at your house, and then treating, not their quirks, but a fundamental aspect of their way of life, as though it didn't exist. David B. Ackerman...