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| Credo - September 1994 |
| 1/9/1994 |
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Credo
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which begins on Monday evening, is a period of intense spiritual drama. It ushers in ten days of penitence and self-examination, culminating in the Day of Atonement, Judaism's holy of holies of time. The Hebrew Bible describes the New Year in terms of its central religious act, the blowing of the shofar or ram's horn. If anything warrants the title of the sound of Jewish history, it is this. The ram's horn was heard at Mount Sinai when God and t... |
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| Credo - March 1994 |
| 1/3/1994 |
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Credo
The Rabbis said that in telling the story of Passover, which begins tonight, ``we must begin with the shame and end with the praise''. There is no doubt this year as to what constitutes the shame. Its name is Hebron. We know the pain that lay behind the atrocity and some responses to it. Jews have suffered much this century, perhaps too much for a people to bear. The Holocaust. The persecution of Jews in Communist and Arab lands. Israel's wars. The terrorist attacks by Palestinia... |
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