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High Holidays

plural noun

  1. Also called: Days of Awe Yamim Nora'imJudaism the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the period of repentance in the first ten days of the Jewish new year

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These ideas swirl around Maddie, whose family eats kosher and observes the high holidays, and who rebels against her culture’s expectations of her as a wife and mother.

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There were moments of fusion at home as well, with celebrations of the High Holidays sometimes merging with Ramadan.

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Granted, the holiest of high holidays in all of American sportsballs never starves for attention.

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He says that he has a rabbi, not a priest, speaks admiringly about Moses during interviews, and has blasted the sounds of the shofar, the ram’s horn blown on Jewish High Holidays, before thousands at campaign rallies.

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Sunday should have been the start of the working week and the return to school in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, with the end of the Jewish high holidays.

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