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Yellow armbands will be available in the Houses and Union at Sunday brunch. The Coordinating Council of Hillel Patrick M. Bennet '85, Former Co- President. Catholic Students Association Thomas Ferrick. Humanist Chaplain, Harvard Radcliffe The Reverend David I., Fountain, Assistant Minister, Memorial Church Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Hillel Director Thomas F. Rice '85, President, H-R Christian Fellowship
...Harvard Hiliel Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold said yesterday that Kollek, who is not an Orthodox Jew, is "not breaking any [religious] law" because Israeli Jews only observe the first day of the holiday, a celebration of God's gift of the Torah...
...that. He started by changing his name to Ben-Yehuda, meaning Son of Judea, and at 23 he sailed with his new wife Dvorah to the Ottoman Empire's province of Palestine. Hebrew today is the mother tongue of 3 million Israelis, but when Ben-Yehuda landed, there were fewer than 25,000 Jews in Palestine, and most of them spoke Arabic, Yiddish or the Spanish-Jewish dialect known as Ladino. Exactly 100 years ago, in August, Dvorah gave birth to a son in Jerusalem. Ben-Yehuda named him Ben-Zion and vowed that he would become the first...
Mockery was only the Orthodox rabbis denounced da's peculiar obsession as a defilement of the language of Scripture. Some fanatics who heard young Ben-Zion talking to his dog in Hebrew seized the dog and killed it. There were other kinds of opposition as well. Immigrants who had been nurtured in Yiddish clung emotionally to the language of the Diaspora. Even Zionist Leader Theodor Herzl rejected Ben-Yehuda's campaign as impractical...
...rally, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's Committee on Oppressed lewry, began with a prayer led by Hillel's Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold and continued with speeches by Dershowitz, a member of the Legal Council on Soviet Jewry, an Amnesty International representative, and a professor Enterson College who visited the Shcharansky family five years ago in the Soviet Union...