Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church via Zenith and Sony) and you have the greatest social mobilization America knows. It's more popular than football, even, and its always in season. And where is the American church strongest? Where can you find three meetinghouses in a block, all filled on the Sabbath? Right in the conservative heartland that America's Right counts as its unassailable base of support...
...that was against the code if not the formal rules, so be it. Liddell was of an entirely different breed. The modest and pious son of missionaries, he ran, as he saw it, for the glory of God. If his faith told him that he must not break the Sabbath by running on Sunday, then so be it. Never mind that the race he was passing up was a qualifying heat for the 1924 Olympics in Paris. Never mind that the Prince of Wales (played with sublime twittiness by David Yelland) was enlisted in the fruitless attempt to force...
...example, despite the economy's problems, the coalition pledged to enforce the observance of the Jewish Sabbath by port workers in the city of Haifa, where tourist-filled cruise ships often arrive on Saturdays; by employees of other government-run companies; and even by the national airline El Al, whose employees promptly threatened to strike if the pledge should be carried out. In addition, the coalition promised wage hikes for rabbis and increased aid for students in religious schools. More than that, it offered military exemptions to "newly observant" Jews who want to study Orthodox theology-an astonishing gesture...
Jerusalem's administration is taking great pains to appease the Orthodox. Plans for a new and larger municipal stadium have been scrapped because the best site was near an Orthodox community -and its inhabitants abhor Sabbath soccer. A bypass has been built around the Kiryat Zanz district in the northern part of the city to circumvent a longstanding, almost ritual, conflict: violent clashes that erupt almost every Saturday between secular neighborhood bands and militant vigilantes, who are so strictly Orthodox that they do not allow cars to drive on their streets on the Sabbath...
...Burger. "While the compulsion may be indirect, the infringement upon free exercise is nonetheless substantial." The precedent cited by the majority was a 1963 case that upheld a Seventh-day Adventist's right to unemployment benefits after she left a job that began requiring work on Saturday, her Sabbath...