Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OBVIOUSLY, support for Israel among American Jews is strong and deeply-rooted. How many kids in Hebrew school have discussed which side they would choose in a hypothetical war between the U.S. and Israel...
...congregation chanted in Hebrew, led by Hornstein's brother Avi. The speakers, including Rabbi Ben-Zion, the Hillel director, discussed the overwhelming sadness of Hornstein's death...
...University presses; $19.95; $21.95 with Apocrypha). What? Another Bible? This mostly felicitous British rendition updates the New English Bible of 1970, shedding thees and thous and many male nouns and pronouns. More important, some quirky Old Testament ! readings from the 1970s have gone to Sheol now that the traditional Hebrew text is back in scholarly fashion...
...deperately rummaged through my knapsack--as the other attendees of the Mather Hebrew Table looked on--but to no avail. I then faced a terrible dilemma--to indulge in the ice cream sundae and later suffer the consequences or to stoically resist the urge and explain to the Hebrew table (in Hebrew!) why I would let an absolutely enticing ice cream sundae go to waste. I chose the former but never again...
...understand, and her writing style is not helpful. The world she creates--whether it is in Hawaii, England or the American mainland--requires total immersion to read. With her multitude of names of the people streaming in and out her characters' lives and Goodman's frequent use of Hebrew, Yiddish and Hawaiian terms, the book is sometimes painful to wade through. Goodman writes...