Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British mandate and the establishment of the state." It is unlikely to change in the future, but, he adds, "We do have a desire to work closer together--that's one of the goals of this program." He points to the teaching of Arabic in Jewish schools and of Hebrew in Arab schools as signs of rapprochment...
...already owned nearly 30 honorary degrees, but for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 49, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the offer of another -an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University in Israel-was too good to resist. Moynihan, whose anti-Arab stand in the U.N. won the hearts of Israel, is now seeking the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in New York and needs the Jewish vote. So there he was campaigning, in a sense, 6,000 miles from his constituency. One problem: the Israeli leaders he met seemed distracted. "My mind was somewhere else," confessed Defense Minister Shimon Peres after...
...special issues that seem to concern Jews is Carter's evangelical Southern Baptist faith (see RELIGION). In a recent letter to Reform Jewish leaders across the nation, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President of the American Union of Hebrew Congregations, recalled that "historically, anti-Semitism had its roots in fundamentalist religion." But he immediately added that it "is unjust and paradoxical for religious Jews to look askance at a man because he is deeply religious...
Guidelines flowing from the bureaucracy have increasingly insisted on racial balance at the expense of other considerations. An Ivy League university was informed by HEW that it did not have enough women in its department of graduate religious studies. The university replied that a reading knowledge of Greek and Hebrew was required. HEW quite literally commanded: "Then end those old-fashioned programs that require irrelevant languages. And start up programs which minority groups can study without learning languages...
Died. Shlomo Bardin, 77, founder and executive director of the Brandeis Institute, which for 35 years has run a summer retreat near Los Angeles where college-age Jewish youths are taught Hebrew culture and religion; of kidney disease; in Westlake, Calif. Born in the Ukraine, Bardin emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he founded a technical high school. At his death he had completed plans for a Jewish prep school on the Brandeis Institute grounds...