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From: nachum@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: When is the Sabbath?
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 10:43:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 10:43:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!nachum    Jan 24 09:43:00 1985

Having lost track of time, one keeps a symbolic Shabbat (kiddush, etc.)
   every SEVEN days, and does minimal (life-sustaining) work all week.  
The dateline issue has been discussed
   since the middle ages, with no consensus to date.
   In practice, though, I have never heard of a Jewish community
   (I have heard of individuals) that keeps Shabbat on a day other than the
   local Saturday.
There have been Jews in Scandinavia for some time now;
   their practice has been to follow the nearest city with a Jewish
   community (e.g. Stockholm).  Rabbi Goren and others have also addressed
   this question, but, again, there is no consensus.
Though what one does when shipwrecked might conceivably have a bearing
   on whether a day is lost in crossing a "dateline", most
   discussions of the dateline issue consider it irrelevant.