Word: hebrew
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...were an important time for Edmund Wilson, a time of personal re- examination and rededication, a time of prodigious work despite illness, irritability and alcoholism. His mother died in 1951, and he inherited a 150- year-old stone house in upstate New York. There he began looking through a Hebrew Bible of his grandfather's and regretting that he could not read God's word as the Americans of an earlier generation did. So, although he was already at work on the Civil War studies that eventually became Patriotic Gore (1962), he now took up the study of Hebrew...
Several Harvard professors will give Latin,Greek and Hebrew salutations, and PlummerProfessor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J.Gomes will speak on Harvard's Puritan heritage.The chief marshal of the University, Richard M.Hunt, will then introduce the Prince...
Rehnquist's credibility sustained one setback when he acknowledged that his lawyer had indeed sent him a letter in 1974 informing him that the deed to his Vermont house barred its transfer to members "of the Hebrew race." "I did not recall the letter or its contents," said the Justice, "before I testified last week...
...Like any other country, we expel illegal aliens." So said Yitzhak Agassi, an official in Israel's Interior Ministry, of the ministry's plan to kick out 46 American-born members of the Black Hebrew sect for overstaying their visas...
Since 1969, more than 1,200 members of the Black Hebrews, led by former Chicago Bus Driver Ben-Ami Carter, 41, have traveled from the U.S. to settle in Israel. Although they reject Jewish religious law and rabbinical authority, they claim to be descended from ancient Hebrew tribes and thus entitled to live in Israel. After studying the matter, Israel's Chief Rabbinate concluded that it could not substantiate their claim for residency. The group asked Israel's Supreme Court to block the government's expulsion order, but last week the court ruled that the government had acted lawfully...