Word: abraham
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...pragmatist and William the stiff-necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin is not beside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the slopes of Mount Rushmore, after...
Many Israelis take pride in the Ethiopians' presence. Says David Hartman, director of the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies in Jerusalem: "Jews can be yellow, black, whatever. The Falashas are here because our people are defined by Abraham's covenant and not because someone ate gefilte fish." Declares a government official: "We can only gain from showing the world the extent to which we are willing to go to rescue Jews. The rescue mission is a national achievement of the highest order...
When TIME rested its case, Gould protested that he still wanted to call rebuttal witnesses, including Sharon once again. "Mr. Gould has no right to put in a rebuttal case since there is nothing to rebut," Saunders told Judge Abraham Sofaer...
According to the TIME story, a secret appendix to the Kahan report contains information about Sharon's visit with the Gemayel family. Under questioning by Judge Abraham Sofaer and Sharon's lawyer Milton Gould, Halevy conceded that he had not been told directly by a source what the appendix contained, but that he had inferred it from strong hints from Israeli officials and other circumstantial evidence...
...biblical themes in more than 200 paintings produced over six centuries. Rembrandt is, in Gowing's words, "the hero of this book" because he surpassed all artists in getting to the heart of the biblical vision: his works in this volume reach from the famous portrayal of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus into heaven. But Bernard's eclectic and refreshing selection presents many other visions, some quite surprising. The 19th century American Thomas Cole grandly evokes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden; old sobersides Albrecht Dürer brings...