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...Jewish, you really only get three days of shopping period, because of Yom Kippur, which falls on Wednesday this year. Harvard reacted to these scheduling conflicts with typical aplomb; it ignored them, although it did manage to move freshmen registration to Sunday because Rosh Hashanah fell on a Monday...
Rosovsky began his routine by saying he was not going to deliver a lecture. Getting a round of applause and laughter, Rosovsky said the only other times of the year he finds himself in Sanders are for one Ec 10 lecture and for Yom Kippur services. The former dean of the Faculty also demonstrated his athletic prowess as he ever-so-gracefully leaped from the stage to the floor where he took his seat...
...only one did it initiate hostilities. But Shipler's chapter on war is mostly a discussion of how Palestinians have gotten a raw deal from the Middle East's wars in general and the Lebanese War in particular. Nothing about how the Six-Day War started, or why the Yom Kippur War was fought...
...messenger was awakened with notification of the award by a telephone call at 5 a.m. in the Manhattan apartment where he lives with his wife and 14- year-old son. It was the morning after Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holiday, and Wiesel, 58, lapsed into memories of his childhood in the Rumanian town of Sighet. "I was still in the mood of Neilah, the final moments of the Yom - Kippur service," he recalled. "I saw myself as a child in Sighet, behind my father and next to my grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted...
Many in Thatcher's own Tory Party were equally unsympathetic, particularly former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, who pointed out that he had refused President Richard Nixon's request to use British bases for U.S. aircraft resupplying Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Even some members of Thatcher's Cabinet privately opposed her decision, though all supported it publicly...