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Last week a new theme park opened in Orlando, Fla., called the Holy Land Experience. The founder, Marvin Rosenthal, says he is a "Hebrew Christian." This is apparently another oxymoronic have-your-bagel-and-eat-it-too sect, like Jews for Jesus. A fuss is bubbling over accusations that Rosenthal's park has a hidden agenda of converting Jews to Christianity. The critics' idea seems to be that Jews will be attracted by Old Testament aspects of the Holy Land Experience and then will get seduced by New Testament aspects. This seems to be Rosenthal's idea too, though...
...valuable collection of 3,000 Jewish books and manuscripts that were previously owned by a European book collector and had been purchased wholesale after the war by a graduate of the College. The donated collection allowed Metcalf to boast that "the College Library now has one of the outstanding Hebrew collections in the United States...
...process to acquire books was complicated. Libraries had to fill out detailed applications specifying--in triplicate--the size of their facilities, whether or not they owned a card catalog system, the number of books in their collections, their budget and their interest in Hebrew, Yiddish and German books...
...always thought that Shira's parents were omniscient. How else could they have named their daughter so perfectly? Shira is the Hebrew word for song and that is what Shira has been to me, a beautiful song that has touched my life in so many ways. I searched my memory last night for just one story that would show you all how incredible Shira was and how important she will always be to me, but I couldn't find one. She may have been a small person physically, but Shira Palmer-Sherman cannot be summed up with just...
...cycle also makes it less likely that the rebellious left of Barak's Labor Party will oust him in favor of one of his critics, such as Knesset speaker Avraham Burg. "It's the only way for Barak to survive, because he knocks Netanyahu out," says Reuven Chazan, a Hebrew University political scientist. "But in the long term, he gains nothing...