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Results: The secret Jewish History of Leap Year

Published on 02/29/2016
By: ptajuggalette
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"It's Leap Day, not sleep day!" — Modern Family
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1.
The Hebrew calendar and Gregorian calendar (what most of the world uses) count time in measures that round off days, months, and years, and base these measures on different astronomical phenomenon, both are "corrected" periodically so that fixed dates and seasons don't drift too far off course. Which of the following facts do you know?
The Hebrew calendar and Gregorian calendar (what most of the world uses) count time in measures that round off days, months, and years, and base these measures on different astronomical phenomenon, both are
The Gregorian calendar is set up so that Easter is always in the spring aligning with nature and history
15%
224 votes
The Hebrew calendar is set, as above, but for Passover instead
7%
99 votes
Both
16%
232 votes
Neither
62%
909 votes
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2.
The Islamic calendar, for example, measures time solely by the moon cycles, and as such, Muslim holidays and festivals like Ramadan and Eid occur at varying times of the year – or rather, at various times during the natural seasons. They always occur on the same Islamic dates. Were you aware of this as compared to the above counting methods?
Yes
17%
244 votes
No
83%
1220 votes
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3.
Which of these other leapY things do you know?
The Gregorian calendar, is a solar-based calendar
21%
304 votes
The Hebrew calendar is Unisolar-based calendar
8%
111 votes
In Babylonian times, the observance of the new month was based upon the appearance of a new moon
13%
183 votes
To ensure the Jews were on the same page, fire signals were passed from station to station in the mountain country between Jerusalem and Babylonia
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99 votes
To confuse the Jews, Samaritans lit the fire signals at the wrong times
4%
53 votes
N/A
66%
973 votes
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4.
February 29 has proven to be a somewhat auspicious date in Jewish history. Check off which of these events you are aware of:
2.29.1868 -- British-Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli formed his first cabinet
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69 votes
2.29.1988 -- A Nazi document was discovered implicating participation of Austrian president and former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
6%
93 votes
2.29.1980 -- Former Israeli prime minister, politician, and military leader Yigal Allon died
5%
68 votes
2.29.1916 -- Jewish-American singer-actress Dinah Shore was born
5%
67 votes
2.29.1920 -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate Howard Nemerov was born
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34 votes
2.29.2016 -- 95-year-old Hubert Zafke, a former medic at Auschwitz, will go on trial in Germany on at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder
5%
72 votes
The Jews call someone born today as a Leapling
8%
115 votes
N/A
76%
1108 votes
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