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or they go overseas.
Towards the middle of August,
Israel's daily papers are full of travel
agency ads that read: "Where are
you spending the holidays? We can
offer you a range of beautiful and
exotic resorts all over the world,
places where you will be living a life
of luxury from morning to night."
The destinations range from Cuba
and the Dominican Republic in the
Caribbean to Mauritius and the
Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
Needless to say, the ads make no
mention about the availability of
synagogues at these destinations.
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Though all official correspondence in
Israel carries two dates — the secular
and the Hebrew — most Israelis don't
pay any attention to the latter, and
would be hard put to even name the
Hebrew months. Yet whatever their
sense of Jewishness, they, unlike their
diaspora brethren, live by the Jewish
calendar.
To
w in e High Holidays.`
We just want to get away from
all the hubbub to enjoy a little
peace and quiet," Nina said
Then she added a more reveal-
ing explanation:
'Also influencing us, I guess, is
the fact that we cant stand
hypocrisy, and we are annoyed
when our friends — secularists to
the core — tell us they are going
to a synagogue on the High
Holidays. So rather than stick
around during a period when
'let's-pretend' religion dominates
Israeli life, we head for the air-
port," Nina concluded.
American immigrants Mike
and Martha Stein, on the other
hand, are happy to be in Israel
during the High Holidays, even
though, as Mike put it, "I know
that not everyone I see in my syn-
agogue on Rosh HaShana will be
there the following Sabbaths. Yet,
all in all, I'm pleased to have
moved from a country where only
3 percent of the Jews take their
religion seriously to one where 30
percent do."
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