Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrapped in his long-fringed, white prayer shawl, and dressed in a white linen robe, Rabbi Finkelstein stood on the dais; looking to the East, with his back to the congregation, he faced the Ark of the Covenant. On the lectern before him lay the great scrolls of the Torah, the book of the law of Moses. Rabbi Finkelstein's clenched right hand beat upon his breast in the traditional gesture of sorrow. Clear and strong, in the twang and guttural of the Hebrew chant, his voice rose...
...Jima and the Bulge were won on thousands of football fields in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of stout-hearted young men have played their hearts out for the kind of honor that is not vitiated by the artificial codes of caste-conscious military gentlemen. RUDOLPH FIEHLER Magnolia, Ark...
...unintimidated nine: Democrats Byrd (Va.) Douglas (ILL.), Ellender (La.), Fulbright (Ark.), Gillette (Iowa), O'Mahoney (Wyo.) and Robertson (Va.); Republicans Duff (Pa.) and Ferguson (Mich...
CARL E. BARNES McGehee, Ark...
Hope & Purpose. Generations of gentile children, begins Ussher briskly, have made their first acquaintances with the Jews through the Old Testament-"the greatest of books for children." Noah and the Ark is a "fulfillment of every child's dream-a 'zoo' which is in the home and a home which is on the move." But the story of the Flood also contains a deep lesson in the outlook of the Jews: God's effort to make a new start with the human race was instantly understandable to them, for in Jewish eyes "despair . . . is the supreme...