Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steaming July day in 1873, representatives of some 30 Jewish congregations met in Cincinnati to make a historic break with Orthodox Judaism. They formed themselves into a society to be known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, dedicated, as they saw it, to a newer, more contemporary vision of the Jewish faith. In Manhattan last week, U.S. Reform Judaism celebrated the 80th anniversary of this birthday.* More than 3,000 delegates from 465 Reform temples were on hand; the five-day conference of U.A.H.C. was the largest Jewish religious gathering in U.S. history...
...Synod Lutheranism grew and prospered with the times, but they never let go of the stern Reformation theology of their founding fathers. Under the leadership of Ottomar's theologian son, Dr. Ludwig Ernst Fuerbringer, who died in 1947, Concordia's serious-minded seminarians continued to master both Hebrew and Greek. Almost as intensively as their work in Bible, Concordia's students study The Book of Concord of 1580, in which their church's doctrines are explicitly set forth. Added to courses in history, philosophy and pastoral care, this kind of work leaves little time for wool...
Pfeiffer, Harry A. Wolfson, Littaner Professor of Semitic Languages, and Professor William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic teach Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Assyrian, and Syriac...
Louis A, Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, and Jack J. Neusner '54, recent recipient of a Henry Fellowship, will be feature speakers this Sunday at a meeting of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society...
Israel's 1,400,000 Jews sat down to the most bountiful meal each could spread, for Passover is a joyous festival to celebrate the Hebrew deliverance from bondage and arrival in the Promised Land 3,000 years ago. Now the land was theirs, and for this they could be grateful, but it was a land of little...