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Last year, the Harvard women's tennis team faced Boston University on Yom Kippur. Six of Harvard's top 12 players were unable to play because of their observance of the religious holiday. The Crimson subsequently lost for the first time in school history to the Terriers...
...recall teachers and school officials anxious to accommodate my absences for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And perhaps most of all, I remember the great pride and pleasure that my grandfather took in being invited year after year to speak at local churches or at the Lions Club on one or another Jewish topic...
Perhaps the man who best exemplified this strand of Israeli culture during my trip was a Brooklyn-born man named Mike Ginsberg. Ginsberg had come to Israel just before the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He served in the army and eventually settled at Kibbutz Misguv Am, on the Lebanese border...
...small white gates to keep the couple's two Bernese mountain dogs, Heidi and James, at bay. No longer at home are their two children: Mark, 25, a computer-software specialist, and Annabel, 24, a painter. Gracious hosts, the Safires are known for their break-the-fast party after Yom Kippur. Amid the memorabilia that fill the house, there is one bit of revisionism: Agnew's autograph is no longer on the photograph of Helene's 1969 citizenship ceremony. But the artifact that best symbolizes the weight of Safire's words is a framed clipping of a 1988 column heavily...
Friends and relatives of Andrew R. "Moty" Hornstein last night paid tribute to the first-year Harvard student who died while home for Yom Kippur...