Word: yom
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...OPINIONS, a Jewish Dartmouth columnist wants a day off for Yom Kippur, but also notes: "I will not accuse Dartmouth administrators of being anti-Semitic." The Columbia Spectator staff wants the school's health services to remain open over the weekend. The Crimson staff applauds charging students for missing their health-services appointments. And a Princetonian columnist, in a piece entitled, "Why morality hasn't declined," pens this winner for most overwrought Ivy quote...
...hosted in Ticknor Lounge, with expenses covered by HIS. Dinners serve Halal meat and are free to students on the Harvard meal plan. In order for meat to be considered Halal, it must be prepared according to specific religious guidelines. The HIS also hosts interfaith iftars such as the Yom Kippur break-fast that will take place with Harvard Hillel...
...centuries of Jewish suffering in Europe culminating in the Holocaust. In the Palestinian and Arab narrative, Israel's creation meant the violent displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and another Arab humiliation at Western hands. So, while May 15 is celebrated by Israelis as Yom Haatzmaut (independence day), the Palestinians mark the same day as the somber anniversary of Al-Nakbah (the catastrophe), the moment when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost everything...
...Yom Kippur break-the-fast meals were held in various student houses around campus...
...undergraduates today commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, they will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors who sponsored refugees from Nazi Germany to complete an undergraduate education. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when captive Jews in Poland’s capital attempted a revolt. As German forces marched through Europe and then attempted to exterminate the continent’s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee...