Sentences with phrase «high holy days»

So just to clarify, it's ok for a Jew to attack a Gentile during High Holy Days but not ok for a Gentile to attack a Jew?

By the mid-1960s demand for a local synagogue grew and in 1968, Congregation Beth Judea held its first high holy days services in Mt. Prospect.

Plus, the NT is very specific about High Holy Days and what Jesus did which is prophetically significant compared to the Holy Days.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

The Jewish High Holy Days began at sunset Wednesday with the start of Rosh Hashana, or the Jewish New Year.

Evacuated families are seeking shelter, including at nearby Jewish overnight camps; the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston is underwater; and several synagogues have closed due to flooding, just weeks in advance of the Jewish High Holy Days.

I am surprised though that they chose to do it on this the highest Holy Day of the Christian faith.

You could try to be a little more respectful toward Religion and the Mentally Ill, especially on the highest holy day in the religion.

Maybe it ought to be a rule, perhaps called Flannery's Rule for Flannery O'Connor, who wrote frequently about manifestations of the Spirit in backwoods preachers: the more eloquently and confidently we discuss the Holy Spirit and commemorate the Spirit in our high holy days, the less we are truly in touch with the Spirit.

He is led to say that the more eloquently and confidently we discuss the Holy Spirit and commemorate the Spirit in our high holy days, the less we are truly in touch with the Spirit.

Which is no different than the catholic churches with their collection baskets, or synagogues selling tickets at Ticketmaster for their «high holy days».

The Web app was launched on August 9 during the first week of Elul, the month on the Jewish calendar that precedes the High Holy Days - which start with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and end 10 days later with Yom Kippur.

The jews were given a choice of who they wanted to save because it was a high holy day when Jesus was sentenced and the tradition was to free a prisoner on that day.

I'm an atheist and have no use for most religions, but fair is fair: if Good Friday, Christmas, and all that business is reason enough to close schools why not close them for other prominent religions» high holy days?

And don't forget that in NYC, the Jewish high holy days are school holidays as well.

Currently certain cities and towns give holidays for Rosh - Hashanah and Yom Kippur — Jewish High Holy Days — and other towns do not.

The Jewish High Holy Days are upon us — well, not upon me personally, because I'm not Jewish, but they're certainly upon Ebay.

(CNN)- A day before the start of the Jewish High Holy Days, New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was out asking voters to judge him favorably in Tuesday's election.

The unusually late date of Easter this year meant that Divine Mercy Sunday coincided with the first day of the month traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Mother, which is alsothe feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, the Church's response to communism's consecration of 1 May as its «high holy day» for celebrating workers.

I serve it over the High Holy Days, as well as Passover.

Since it's so important that pie be consumed on this high holy day, I've been thinking about what exactly I'd be making for quite a while.

Beth Am stayed in the property through the Jewish High Holy Days and the park district has been renovating the 37,000 - square - foot building since September 2013.

Although Lasher, reached by text on the high holy day of Yom Kippur (which he was quick to point out to me) said there were all kinds of discussions, yet no deal, but nor was there any deal broken.

Omg, he released an attack add the day after 9/11 and during the High Holy Days!

Should all the campaigns be suspended b / c of the high holy days?

No surprise then that Rice goes negative against a Jewish man during the Jewish high holy days.

Primary day is Tuesday regardless of when the high holy days fall and the way the media is in the tank for Schneiderman (the New York Times overlooking his hit and run and all the reasons cited so skillfully by Wayne Barrett in the Village Voice) I don't blame Rice for going negative.

Primary Day falls smack in the middle of the «high holy days» for the Jewish religion only.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Debra James ruled that the Orthodox practice of Kaporos, during which chickens are slaughtered before the high holy day of Yom Kippur to atone for sins, can proceed, knocking down a challenge by a Brooklyn animal - rights group.

I emailed Cuomo's press office this morning to ask if the administration had given though to the fact that these layoffs coincide with the start of what Jews call the «Days of Awe» or the «High Holy Days» — a 10 - day period of introspection and repentance that culminates with Yom Kippur.

The high holy days are a time for repentance, redemption and charity.

Would it also be considered religiously insensitive to be attacking the Governor during the High Holy Days?

Public Advocate Letitia James: «At sundown tonight Jews around the world begin to celebrate the first of the High Holy Days.

This time of year we also celebrate the lighting of the Jewish Menorah during the high holy days of Hanukkah

Released somewhat fittingly on 4/20, the high holy day on the calendar for stoners, the latest slapdash effort from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (Club Dread, Beerfest) isn't aggressively terrible or outrageously offensive.

At the Conservative temple I attend during the High Holy Days, I'm assigned the same seat every year in the building's balcony section.

There are some who lock their doors on Halloween, shut off the porch light, and scoff at the events that take place on the high holy day for witches.

, is based on ten blog posts I wrote during the Jewish High Holy Days.

What do these artist all share beyond mattzoh ball soup on the high holy days?

However, members of other religions may request time away from work for their high holy days.

The many holidays honor parts of our history, the seasons, the beginning of the annual cycle of reading the Torah and, of course the High Holy Days in which we are urged to look deep inside and cleanse our souls, seek forgiveness and turn the page for a coming year.

Over these many years, I've tried to set an example for my children of being committed to those observances, by not working on those High Holy Days.