Word: fastedness
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Esensten, who is also a Crimson editor, fainted while blowing the shofar at the end of yesterday’s services, having fasted during the day.
"But this millennium has been no stranger to calendar disputes. It was not until the sixth century that the monk Dionysus Exiguus created our calendar system by putting a date on Jesus' birth, and many people have still not yet agreed on the details. Think of the old dispute in...
Last summer Booker erected a tent outside one of the most violent housing projects in Newark and fasted for 10 days to get more police protection for the place. It worked; Mayor Sharpe James and the police brass were shamed into paying attention. Conrad Lindsey, 25, still lives at the...
A dozen members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) fasted yesterday in solidarity with students protesters at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cuellar says he fasted with his girlfriend last Yom Kippur, though ironically his three Jewish roommates did not.