The keynote of Shas's campaign was its strident insistence that its leader, Aryeh Deri, who was convicted in March of taking bribes, is the innocent victim of persecution by "the Ashkenazi [western] elitists"—the intelligentsia, the press, the state prosecutors and the courts.For many of Mr Barak's supporters on the left, Shas's triumph has dulled the edge of their rejoicing.
Francis writes, "We want to enter fully into the fabric of society, sharing the lives of all, listening to their concerns, helping them materially and spiritually in their needs, rejoicing with those who rejoice, weeping with those who weep; arm in arm with others, we are committed to building a new world".
"They probably rubbed their hands, rejoicing at having played a trick on the Russians," he said.
And they all said, 'Hurrah,' and went down to their city rejoicing.
I have observed conquerors triumphing over vanquished princes, viziers exulting in their authority, statesmen rejoicing in their power, and in all this I have beheld nothing to exceed the happiness and hilarity of the lover when he is sure that the beloved's heart is in his keeping".
They have broken their chains, singing and rejoicing following their pain and tribulation.
Then a drama in several scenes about bandits being blinded for their crimes and rejoicing as the Buddha restores their sight.
At an OTB parlor on Second Avenue between 69th and 70th Streets in Manhattan on Sunday, patrons — most of them retired men above their 60s — rejoiced at the news that the city and the state had worked out their differences.
LGBT Floridians and their allies rejoiced last month when the state lifted its ban on gay marriage, but are already fighting their next battle, with local conservatives apparently determined to make trans folks' lives as nightmarish as possible.
Elsewhere, though, districts vowed to teach evolution only, and in Kansas and across the country, their allies rejoiced today.
When the deadline for meeting the quota arrived, according to the historian Eugene C. Murdock, "the districts which had made their quota rejoiced in relief, while those that had failed stiffened themselves for a draft".
