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Article: A (Completely) New Year
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- September 29, 1995
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Sam Orbaum
Jerusalem Post
09-29-1995
Make a note of this date: 23 Tevet, 5760.
You'll probably be among the 99.99999998 percent of humanity marking that day as January 1, 2000. The other 0.00000002 percent of the species will be busy that day revoking kashrut licenses.
The calendar is yet another reminder that Jews and Christians are different. We bide time according to the moon; they, the sun. We celebrate the New Year in mid-year. Our week begins when theirs ends. What they call "fashionably late" we unfashionably call "Jewish time."
When they're celebrating the second millennium, we'll be snickering that we did that 3,760 years ago.
Is all this really necessary? I mean, if we can ...
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