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...classes will begin Wednesday, September 16--three class days earlier than usual--to avoid conflict with Rosh Hashanah. And in 1999, classes will start Tuesday, September 21, one day late, to avoid conflict with Yom Kippur. The additional day, necessary to complete the required 125 instructional days for the year, will be added to the spring 2000 term...
...defend the right of a people to live on a daily basis? We do the victims of the Holocaust a tremendous injustice in failing to extol and elevate the achievements of the Jewish state in the past 48 years at the same time that on this day of remembrance, Yom Hashoah, we recall the ultimate sacrifices of the martyrs of the Holocaust...
Such a pattern is repeated in a number of other Jewish rituals and holidays. For instance, Yom Ha'Aztmaut, Israeli Independence Day, is immediately preceded by Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day, which commemorates all those who fell in defense of Israel. One goes immediately from sorrow to gladness...
...Harvard should give all her young a sense of ethical imperative to use their talents to help others. The university is an academic institution, but it also aims to produce good citizens. We all need to develop the mindset of the sophomore who coordinated Hillel's hunger drive on Yom Kippur this past fall. He noted two basic facts: many people would fast on that day, and a lot of hungry people could use the money spent on that uneaten food. Once that kind of thinking took place, the rest was logistics, and 543 people signed up to raise over...
Sarah E. Rimsky '98 is participating in the project today. She says her family has always donated to the hungry the money they would have spent on food during Yom Kippur, usually about...