new year Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/new-year/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Fri, 30 Dec 2022 03:42:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Sylvester https://www.jwire.com.au/sylvester/ https://www.jwire.com.au/sylvester/#respond Fri, 30 Dec 2022 03:41:08 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=143620 I only became aware of the controversy surrounding the New Year when I was in Israel as a young man and discovered that the rabbinate was refusing to give kashrut certificates to hotels that held New Year’s Eve parties. Angry rabbis made typically hyperbolic statements about the profound disasters that celebrating something called Sylvester would […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/sylvester/feed/ 0 143620 ‘Tis that time of year again https://www.jwire.com.au/kuttner-new-year/ https://www.jwire.com.au/kuttner-new-year/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:34:27 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=59028 It hardly seems like twelve months since 2015 commenced but here we are on the cusp of 2016 in the civil calendar...writes Michael Kuttner.

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