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#57: "Jewish Calendar = Israeli Calendar?"

For Heaven's Sake

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The New Year Is a New Year in Israel

Even Israelis who couldn't name the Hebrew year that we're entering know that it's a new year and relate to it as a new year. I have Arab neighbors who will say Shonatouvain and for them, in some way, it also is a new Year. Even Orthodox Jews in the diaspora can't help but being somehow swept up in January 1st. That is a new year there. It's a newyear.

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