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...wedding will be on June 24 in Keren's home city of Atlanta, GA. They will go to Europe for a few weeks on their way to Israel, where they will spend the next year. Benjie will be doing graduate research at Hebrew University, and Keren will most likely be teaching English...
...service yesterday included a range of prayers read in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic and English...
...central committee of Fatah and regularly traveled to Tunis to consult with the leadership there. At the same time, in the eyes of those on the West Bank, he was not an outsider; he knew what he was talking about. Add to that the fact that he learned Hebrew, so that he could engage with the Israelis in their own language, and played a leading role in opening up dialogue with the Israelis. That also made him a "kosher" Palestinian...
...observed some key precepts without full conversion. At the same time, the city was in its 15th generation of Greco-Roman influence (since the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.). Parents gave their children Greek names; intellectuals were conversant in classical philosophy. Greek had become along with Hebrew and Aramaic one of the area's main languages, and one of the most commonly used versions of the Torah was in Greek. (Jesus presumably spoke all three languages.) The interaction of Jewish and classical thought would lend the Christian Bible much of its strength...
...asked questions later." Personal pride notwithstanding, the high priest had reason to act against a Jew who had disrupted the Temple and may have been plotting another grand entrance on the second day of the feast. To Caiaphas, says Lee Levine, professor of Jewish history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, "Jesus and others like him were just a bad idea. Bad for the Temple, bad for the Romans and bad for the Jews...