Tagged Samoa

With Samoa calendar change, question for Jews: When is Shabbat?
January 1, 2012 / Adam Soclof, JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Pacific island nation of Samoa is taking 186,000 citizens through a national time warp by moving west of the international dateline, forfeiting the last Friday of 2011 and jumping straight from Thursday into Saturday. For Samoans, this solves a practical question: Why remain 18… Read more »