Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bondage. Even as the committee spoke, the underground was shifting its human freight out of the villages of eastern Europe. Operated by Haganah (Hebrew for "self-defense"), the movement is largely financed by funds collected...
Died. The Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, 73, Slovakia-born, U.S.-educated, since 1913 Chief Rabbi of the British Empire's United Hebrew Congregations, pillar of orthodoxy and Zionism (a forest in Galilee was named for him); in London...
...Evening Lesson-'these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.' And suddenly, in the mild summer air, it seemed as if, like a swarm of bees inadvertently wakened, the blessings of the Old Testament were actually rushing after me. From the hot, remote, passionate past of Hebrew history, out of the Oriental climate and unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm me with Benedictions for which I had not bargained. Great oxen and camels and concubines were panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed...
Mordecai Kaplan, always an unorthodox thinker, began outraging Jewish fundamentalists a decade ago by launching the "reconstructionist" movement to liberalize Hebrew doctrine. The issue last week was a newly published Sabbath
...proceedings were in English and Arabic. The prisoners had refused to testify in any language but Hebrew. Because they distrusted the court interpreter, they later switched to English. Impatiently they admitted their acts. As Sternists and "sons of Palestine," they had come to Cairo for the express purpose of killing Moyne, they said. Tsouri and Hakim had leaped on the running board of Lord Moyne's car. Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination...