Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord, blessed be His name, with oath and covenant." The Vice President, his voice low, squirmed through a diplomatically minimum answer and the rabbis took trolley cars to the Lincoln Memorial. Across the Mall rolled the Star-Spangled Banner, chanted in the strange, almost sobbing intonation of Hebrew. Then the rabbis faded out of sight and out of mind...
Since 1926 Philip Bernstein has been rabbi of 94-year-old Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester. There he gradually edged his ultra-Reformed congregation back towards traditional Judaism, increased the ratio of Hebrew to English in the services, this year substituted services on Friday night (the age-old time that Jews have gone to their synagogues to greet the Sabbath) for his temple's long-established Sunday morning observances...
Once a member of the Church of England, once a Christian Scientist, Boake Carter declared that he had been converted to a special brand of "Biblical Hebrew" faith, different from both Orthodox and Reformed Judaism. He also announced forthcoming publication of the first 2,000-odd-page volume of a new translation of the Bible called The Bible in the Hands of Its Creator. Its purpose: to explain for the first time the world's current ills, dispose of the Bible's apparent inconsistencies, in so doing, spell the doom of Hitler...
...return from the Holy Land, where he became a disciple of Moses Guibbory, who settled down as a hermit in a cave near Jerusalem and claimed discovery of a "secret code" to the Bible's original meaning. Carter contributed to the hermit's expenses, took up Hebrew...
Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av (July 23 in 1942), is the saddest day in the Jewish year. Dating from the destruction of the First Temple at Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, it also commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Emperor Titus, the expulsion of Jews from Spain...