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...Philip Schechter, 37, trouble began in earnest on the High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, last fall. He had been at Temple Shaaray Tefila on Manhattan's Upper East Side since May. Over the summer, with his beard already bushy, Schechter let his hair grow to shoulder length: hardly the image of the Reform rabbi. As the holidays approached, he asked himself what he could say in his sermon to many people he had never seen before-those who attend services only on the High Holy Days-and might not see again until the next year...
...follow his favorite pastime of archaeological digging. Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev joined 22,000 other fans at a soccer game in Tel Aviv, and Jack Benny appeared in a semiserious concert with the Israeli Philharmonic. At week's end the nation halted all activity for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Just before the holiday, Bar-Lev spoke on the effects of the crises in Egypt and Jordan: "It is possible that these factors will prepare the Arab states for a peaceful settlement with Israel. But it is also possible that the Arab states will continue...
Tufts fell 22-9 on October 14, and a Yom Kippur dual match produced a 16-5 win over Northeastern and a 23-11 triumph over Brown...
...student politics. He still asserts that Harvard's educational-existential problems-and not R. O. T. C.-were the real cause of last spring's restlessness. Like Ford, May dealt with the Moratorium as an act of conscience instead of a political tactic. "The analogy I would use is Yom Kippur," he said. If the conscience of people in the community moves them not to take part in the University on a particular day, the Faculty ought to respect their conscientious beliefs." But May will not guarantee deference when the University itself is under protest. "The analogy with the strike...
Mendelsohn took exception to Ford's letter-which he viewed as comparing the moratorium to Yom Kippur-and said, "the analogy is not one to Yom Kippur...