Word: yom
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...September Labor Day and religious observances such as Yom Kippur bring the fall into focus. Shop for sports goods and hunting equipment, children's shoes, fall fashion accessories, auto batteries, radios, dishwashers and glassware...
...singing certain show tunes...both of which she did on a very regular basis. It got to the point where my friends and I all started imitating her...we call it "song and dance." There is a song we often sing at Hillel after lunch on Shabbat called "Yom Zeh L'Yisrael" and there is a line at the end: "B'Shabbat yoshevet b'zmir ooh shvacha." ("On Shabbat we sit in song and praise")...and without fail, every time we would get up to this line my friends and I would catch Shira's eye across the room...
...Yom Kippur, two Sundays ago, Azmi Bishara heard on a radio call-in show that a Jewish mob intended to torch his house. Bishara, a member of parliament from Nazareth, advocates an end to Israel's Jewish character in favor of "a state of all its citizens." He rushed home to evacuate his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter, and at midnight a crowd gathered outside his home and stoned it. "Imagine if Arabs had attacked the house of a Jewish member of parliament," says Bishara. "They would have shot them. At my house, the police were just trying...
Columbus Day and Yom Kippur fell on the same day this year, but the few bona fide Italian icons who portray those in desperate need of atonement were not celebrating. Cast members of HBO's THE SOPRANOS were disinvited from riding in New York City's Columbus Day parade following protests from Italian-American groups. "The Sopranos is guilty of damaging the image and character of an estimated 20 million Italian Americans by using their religion, customs and values in a violent and immoral context," claims the coalition, which recently named show creator David Chase "Pasta-tute of the Year...
After a month of pre-announcements, preemptive strikes, and plenty of nail-biting over oil prices and the euro - a month that's hacked away nearly a fifth of the NASDAQ index's value - the third-quarter earnings season finally comes to Wall Street. After Monday's Yom Kippur/Columbus Day wasteland, in which a middling-to-down day showed signs of life in stocks like day-trader favorites Juniper and JDS Uniphase but a sort of languid absenteeism in almost everything else, investors will get a chance starting Tuesday to place their bets...