Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oriental children had no idea what the Hebrew words for exercise book, pencil, eraser or ruler are. When the teacher asked, "What kind of grown-up uses a pencil?" the Europeans shouted, "Poet . . . official . . . bank clerk . . ." But all the little Orientals could think of to say was "Ben-Gurion," for they had never heard of a bank clerk or a poet. As a matter of fact, in their first six years of life, they had absorbed almost nothing. Gradually, they stopped trying to answer any questions...
...used in the salt marshes of Tashkent, was too expensive, but Zarchin remained certain that the project was practical. He kept it in mind when he was sentenced to five years in the Urals for slyly registering a magnesium-extracting process under the letters "LZLE" first letters of the Hebrew Phrase meaning, "For Zions sake I will not keep silent" (Isaiah...
...Sodom (current population: about 1,000), where the Lord saved Lot and his naughty daughters, then rained fire and brimstone on the sinful city, a 6 ft. sign went up this month. Written in Hebrew and English, it noted that "Sodom is the lowest point of habitation in the world, 1,286 ft. below sea level." Then, after telling the Biblical story of Sodom's destruction, it added: "Today, Sodom is the center of Israel's potash production...
...give it to them is Nelson Glueck, archaeologist and head of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, chief training center for U.S. Reform rabbis. Three years ago Dr. Glueck. three times director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem's Old City, had the idea of setting up a postgraduate archaeological school in Jerusalem linked to Hebrew Union. Naturally, the school would have facilities for worship; naturally, the worship would be according to the relaxed rules of Reform Judaism. The Israeli government leased him a two-acre plot at an annual rent of 40?, and Nelson Glueck...
...keep him from getting his way, the powerful Orthodox faction blocked the planned school by postponing meetings of the Jerusalem Municipal Council necessary to grant a construction permit. At last Glueck compromised on some details: services would be held in Hebrew rather than English, hats would be optional, and there would be no organ. But the services would still be unmistakably Reform. Says Glueck: "I am no missionary for American Reform Judaism, but I am interested in seeing that there is freedom of religion in Israel ... I hate ghettos and the ghetto spirit, and the rabbinate is trying to project...