Word: yom
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...Jewish calendar clearly mandates time to consider issues of priorities and values. Days are set aside for us to rethink how we act and how we live. But when the sun sets on Yom Kippur, the book of life is closed and put on the shelf until the next year. Whether or not we like the answers Judaism or anyone else offers, whether we have any answers at all, there is a time to search and a time to move on, taking the answers that we’ve considered on our path with...
...Planning was just as obsessive for the Golan mission. On the eve of the Jewish fast day of Yom Kippur in 1995, Mokady was called to the Japanese embassy in Tel Aviv to address senior Japanese diplomats, a delegation of lawmakers and top military officers. The barrage of questions he faced focused on the safety of the Japanese soldiers. "I managed to convince them that it's not chaos over here," Mokady says of the situation in their sector of the Golan...
Zalaznick got her offensive e-mail near Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which made her ultimately forgive the e-mail sender. I got mine right before Passover, which just made me want to eat even more bread. Eventually, I replied to the e-mail, telling her how right I thought she was and that I wasn't hurt. I don't exactly have a real April 19 sense of revenge...
Harvard Hillel began its commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Rememberance Day, last night with a short service and a powerful movie on neo-Nazism...
Temple worship revolved around sacrifice: a lamb for Passover, a bull for Yom Kippur, two doves--"the poor woman's sacrifice"--to celebrate a child's birth. Before buying an animal, visitors changed their Roman denarii (the dollar of the day) for shekels, or Temple coins, that had no portraits on them and so did not violate the Jewish prohibition of graven images. Herod appears to have allowed the money changers onto the Temple platform, which may have spurred Jesus' scourging of them in "my father's house." Joshua Schwartz, a professor of historical geography at Israel's Bar Ilan...