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Yavneh's Project Renewal plans address these shortcom- ings and the success of Project Renewal in other places has encouraged Tsabari and her neighbors. "I tell residents that there is hope and that things are starting to happen," she says. "They're waiting like a hungry person who waits for bread to eat." ■ Netanya Offers Beauty, Comfort For All Ages Eth the Temple in ruins, - , raison d'etre of Judaism vanished. So Rabbi Yochanan moved to Yavneh, established a yeshivah and bet din (law court) and changed the course of Jewish history. Priests and animal sacrifice were out; rabbis, study and prayer were in. Before the Romans sup- pressed the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 C.E. and sent Jews fleeing out of the country, Rabbi Yochanan, his suc- cessor Rabbi Gamliel and their followers got down to some serious Jewish business in Yavneh. The Hebrew calen- dar was fixed, the Torah was canonized and translated in- to Greek, and the rules gover- ning the writing of the Hebrew language were set. 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