Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avraham Harmon, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, told the crowd, "The 900,000 children in Israel are not living in the Warsaw Ghetto. We shall resist...
Although she has lived in Palestine and Israel for more than 53 years, Mrs. Meir still speaks Hebrew with a distinctive Middle American accent. She was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev-her earliest memories, she told Pope Paul at the Vatican, were of pogroms-and immigrated to the U.S. at eight with her family. In Milwaukee, her home for nearly 15 years, she became Goldie Myerson...
...from the Central Conference of American Rabbis) or the coffee-table hardback (Grossman; $17.50). A "family package" -ten paperbacks and the hardback for $37.50-has been selling briskly. The book's only drawback for some potential users may be its refusal to coddle its audience. While everything in Hebrew also appears in English, none of the Hebrew is transliterated for those who might like to speak the Hebrew words but cannot read the characters. Moreover, the profusion of optional readings and songs may confuse those who prefer a follow-by-rote handbook to one that allows many individual variations...
Some of the feeling of malaise can be understood in light of the euphoria that followed the 1967 war. "Expectations were raised so rapidly," says Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Hebrew University, "that even a small setback in the standard of living creates a huge psychological adjustment...
...marry, a fanatic who wakes her to roll in the snow with him for penance. At last, dying, despairing, wondering about "the Apostates who denied God, considering the world a random combination of atoms," Akhsa rips open her pillowcase and finds in a crown of feathers God's feathery Hebrew name...