Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, wrote about his adventures in a book called Winged Dagger, and went to live quietly at suburban Codsall, near Wolverhampton, with his parents and his three admiring brothers, Keith, Ray and Rex (also known as "Pud"). Twice Roy got letters containing a single sheet with the single Hebrew word: "Nekama!" (Revenge...
...Hebrew phrase which is translated as "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2, is tohnvavohu. It is still highly current. Germans use it a lot these days to mean utter tarfu. In Palestine, too, it means chaos. Last week the situation in Palestine could only be described as tohuvavohu...
Most of the rabbis of these Reform congregations have been trained at Hebrew Union College, which Dr. Wise started in Cincinnati in 1875. Last week, on the Tudor Gothic campus of Hebrew Union, 1,000 leaders of Reform Judaism met to celebrate the inauguration of the college's fourth president, Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 47. Handsome, dark-eyed Nelson Glueck (rhymes with click) became a rabbi at 23, but he is better known as one of the world's foremost archeologists. He spent ten of the last 15 years in Palestine, where he discovered and mapped 1,000 biblical...
...Hebrew Union's new president" is no dogmatist in theology: "I am more interested in hearts than in hats or ham," he says. "As never before, mankind needs pioneers of the spirit. . . . The sense and hope of survival for us and mankind bespeak and demand an all-enveloping passion on our part for the principles and precepts of ... an American Judaism, strengthening and being strengthened by the aims ... of the colonial fathers who called this country 'the new Jerusalem...
Warren Austin stood in the Security Council and offered peace as the reason. Immediately after his statement the Jews threatened to form a Hebrew State. The Arabs reiterated their determination to destroy it. It is evident that the only way that peace can be maintained in the Holy Land is through the agency of a U.N. force. Without this force warfare is inevitable; with it, partition will be as tranquil as trusteeship or any other proposal. Peace is not the answer...