Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hypothetical Japanese paratroopers who landed in Tel Aviv in May 1948 could have legitimately claimed sovereign rights in Palestine, Yehuda Z. Blum, professor of international law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told a group of approximately 50 people last night in Science Center...
...century - George Washington's letter of good wishes to the city's Jewish congregation dated 1789 is the book's epi- graph - but most of those Adler meets feel that they remain in Georgia on the most precarious kind of sufferance. Their prudent rabbi has eliminated Hebrew from most of the ritual, and their new temple, Adler notes wryly, lacks only a cross to make it indistinguishable from a church...
...speaker is Israel Shahak, a professor of organic Chemistry at Hebrew University and Chairperson of the Israeli League for Human Rights. Since 1967, Shahak has become one of the Israeli government's most outspoken critics. Shahak is currently in the United States on a speaking tour that included a speech at MIT and a discussion session last week at Harvard. He says he has come to the United States to present a case for human rights--a salient issue these days...
...correct translation of chai on Rod Carew's chain is "life" and not, as you stated, "health." The word is made up of the Hebrew letters chet and yud, which together form the word chai- life. But then again, if one has health, one has life...
...stretched from Dan to Beersheba, which has become a famous phrase of definition. The country reached its greatest size two centuries later in Solomon's time. Begin has consistently referred to the occupied West Bank as "Samaria and Judea." Says Biblical Scholar Shemaryahu Talmon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "The Promised Land always includes Judea and Samaria and sometimes even the eastern side of the Jordan River...