Word: halevy
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...Spent a happy fifteen minutes exchanging Bible quotations with Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
...with the high silk hat and the flaring beard seemed to be everywhere last week, carrying his gold-headed cane and dog-eared Old Testament, and speaking a fine, clear Dublin English. Everywhere he went, his people flocked around him to ask his blessing and welcome His Eminence Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...
...Levy, of Pittsburgh, Pa., delivered last night the fourth in a series of lectures on "Representative Men of Israel"; taking as his special topic, "Jehudah Halevi, the Poet," under the auspices of the Menorah Society...
...Jehudah Halevi was born in Spain in 1085 during the period of high Moorish civilization when that country was the only one in which the persecuted race was tolerated. There the Jews held the balance of power. Owing to this toleration he received an excellent education and became a cultured man. He was a physician and philosopher with a charming personality, thoroughly balanced poetic temperament, and a keen imagination. The suffering of his race during the crusades gave form and thought to his poetical power, and he was so impressed with the fact that the function...