Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. David de Sola Pool, rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish & Portuguese Synagog, presided over the Union of Sephardic Congregations.? The chief problems are to make a new English translation of their Hebrew prayer book; to organize a U. S. school to train rabbis in their ritual, which is slightly different from the Ashkenazic ritual. (Sephardic rabbis now must be imported. Rabbi Pool was trained in England...
Henrietta Szold, Zionist ... Doctor of Hebrew Letters...
Lucien Wolf, London Jewish diplomat, journalist ... Doctor of Hebrew Letters...
France. A representative of Western Electric Co. was in Palestine last week, arranging to take to Paris a troupe of 100% Jewish actors to make talkies in France in Hebrew...
Only two sons of Abraham, traveling, idol-smashing Hebrew, became famed? Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac, son of Sarah, Abraham's half-sister by another mother, was the younger. He became the ancestor of the Israelites (of whom the Jews are the professedly sole remnants). Ishmael, born of Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was the elder. After Sarah's jealousy nagged Abraham into driving Hagar and her Ishmael into the wilderness, Ishmael became an archer, married an Egyptian girl, begot twelve sons who became ancestors of the Nomad tribes around Palestine from whom the Arabians are descended...