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Normally, at this time of year, thousands of youth and adults from all over the Jewish world gather in Poland to participate in the March of the Living (MOL) followed by a week in Israel to celebrate our rebirth. However, due to the shadow of Coronavirus this year, once again, the March will be virtual. I am honoured to be one of the educational guides of this prestigious and important program. Abraham Hirchson, one of the founders of MOL, eloquently justified the necessity of such an event for young people in the following way,
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William J. Tighe
For all Christians today who observe a “liturgical year,” the high point of that year is the annual commemoration of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection at the end of Holy Week. Good Friday recalls to the faithful the Lord’s suffering and death, and in most Christian traditions is a day of ascetical practices, particularly fasting. Holy Saturday commemorates his entombment and descent to hell, and thus is also a day of asceticism. Easter Sunday, by contrast, is the joyous celebration of his resurrection, and of
the resurrection of mankind in him. Despite these discrete “episodes,” however, most Christian churches