"There are numerous reasons why my family left Iran in 1987, but an important one was the decision by the Iranian government that year not to officially recognise the holy sabbath as a religious day off for Jewish students," an Iranian-Israeli, Meir Javedanfar, blogged recently as he hailed the new decision.
It makes for oddly good vibes, and New York disco-house crew Mister Saturday Night have been masters of the format since 2009, putting the Abba in sabbath across various Brooklyn warehouses.
The Mail on Sunday was the biggest sabbath seller at last: nearly 29,000 ahead of a flagging Sun on Sunday.
In February, Younesi announced that Jewish students officially no longer had to go to school on Saturdays, the sabbath day in the Hebrew calendar.
They have to buy their own birth control pills, for example, or shell out $1,000 for their own IUDs.In a case from 1985, Estate of Thornton v Caldor, Inc., the Supreme Court struck down a law granting every employee the right not to come in to work on his or her Sabbath.
Families remaining in them feel increasingly isolated and uncomfortable, especially on the sabbath.
Those demands are no longer Meretz's alone: Mr Barak himself, anxious to woo the large and mostly secular Russian-immigrant community, recently proposed a legislative programme designed to bring about a "secular revolution" in Israel, radically eroding the power of the rabbinate to adjudicate in matters of personal status and sabbath observance.
Some disliked the idea of sharing Saturday with the Jewish sabbath; others were simply loth to break from tradition.
Different Jewish congregations disagree about the severity with which various work-like activities should be banned on the sabbath, and I grew up in a secular family that ignored all the rules.
"When I read about the violence in Israel, it puts me off," he says, lounging under a banana-tree on a sunny Sabbath.
In those two attacks, perpetrated on the Jewish sabbath, some 25 people died, six of them Jews and the rest Turkish Muslim passers-by, while over 300 people were injured.The British government promptly linked the November 20th attacks to al-Qaeda.
