Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from work on the Sabbath, circumcised their male children when they were eight days old, stayed indoors on Yom Kippur, and refused to eat fish without fins and scales, he decided they must be Jews. Rahabi set about rescuing their religion; he gave them prayers and rituals, and taught Hebrew to three of their most promising young men. Ever since, the community has observed the Sephardic rites they learned from...
...Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically possible, Eban stripped to his shirtsleeves and scored a smashing comeback by appealing for votes with U.N.-style eloquence in Arabic, Spanish, French, Persian and Hebrew. Peres and Eban are now in line for top government posts, and Ben-Gurion makes no secret of the fact that he would like to see one-eyed General Moshe Dayan, the man with the eye patch, his successor...
...Jews who crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication of Madrid's first regular synagogue since 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, urged on by the Spanish Inquisition, ordered...
...agreed informally that the synagogue would be permitted to operate openly as long as police were kept informed of its activities. At last week's dedication, a police inspector duly watched as reverent Jews queued up to kiss the Torah, listened blandly as the congregation chanted its ancient Hebrew prayers. The service over, the inspector congratulated Congregation President Louis Abraham Blitz on the synagogue's impressive decor, shook hands all around and left. President Blitz led the assembled Jews in a tactful prayer: "May God look with kindness upon the chief of the Spanish state...
Tortuous Road. For Setsuzau Kotsuji, the road to the Jewish faith was long and tortuous. As a child, in Kyoto, Japan's temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...