Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unconscious, just as dreams are." The myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the great gods on Olympus and gave it to man, can be viewed as a dream of aspiration, reflecting the exuberance and almost celestial confidence of the Greeks. The contrasting and contemporary Hebrew story of Job has the opposite meaning: it symbolizes man's submission to a power above himself, cruel and incomprehensible as it may seem...
...increase does not total 15 because several already approved Core courses--including those to be taught by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, Michael Walzer, professor of Government, and Yosef H. Yerushalmi, professor of Hebrew and of Jewish history, who are all leaving--have been cancelled...
...past few years, many Western diplomats and political leaders have come to agree with this view. So have a growing number of Israelis and even some of their American Jewish supporters. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "There will never be peace until there is a rapprochement between Israel and the Palestinians...
That idea was given a forceful public statement last month by Professor Yacob Talmon, a leading historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staunch Zionist. In a letter to the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz, Talmon acidly denounced Begin's autonomy idea as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth." Talmon argued that similarly limited autonomy plans had never worked in the past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist...
Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, is something of a rarity: a Jewish American who openly professes compassion for the Palestinian people and recognizes the need for coexistence and mutual trust. "I feel almost a kinship with the Palestinians," says Rabbi Schindler. "The role they are playing in the Arab world is not unlike the role of the Jews in the world: rootless wanderers...