This Sunday, the Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue in Skokie, IL will hold its 70th annual collective Holocaust memorial observance.
A national observance was needed, a collective acknowledgment of just how profoundly devastating the war had been, and over time, as the tradition took hold, the holiday came to be known as Memorial Day.
"B-logging," like stamp collecting and religious observance, should be considered a hobby and nothing more.
Nel and Taylor (2013) define 'South-South solidarity' as an attitude, feeling and relationship based on "the collective pursuit of a common good, the recognition and observance of reciprocal moral duties, including respect for national sovereignty, fundamental equality and mutual benefit" (Nel and Taylor 2013 10911).
Bonus in the basket of moss and twine: a journal filled with paper made by a Pervuvian woman collective on which I can write all my thoughts and dreams and poems and sketches of whimsical observances, such as funny people in diners.
"It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organization, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle".
Although human rights have become embedded in our institutions at the same time as religious observance has been in decline, they could become vulnerable in an entirely post-Christian environment where the collective memory slips from the old moorings inherited from Christian ethics.
Turning to the specific collective-bargaining agreements, the court indicated that requiring Philbrook to take unpaid leave for religious absences exceeding the number granted in the collective-bargaining agreements would in principle be a reasonable accommodation, because Title VII does not require employers to accommodate religious observances "at all costs".
Collective energy was low.
