Word: hebrews
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Highlight of a colloquium on The Idea of God in the Ancient Near East was the assertion by Herbert Gordon May of Oberlin that the religion of the Hebrew patriarchs differed widely from that of Moses, and that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah...
Such comity would have pleased the great Hebrew teacher Hillel (70 B.C.-10 A.D.), many of whose sayings resemble Christ's. According to legend a Gentile once challenged him: "If you can teach me the Torah while I stand on one foot I will be converted." As the man hopped, Hillel answered: "What is hateful to thee, do not do unto thy fellow man-all the rest is commentary...
...racial mixtures endlessly swirl and boil. Around him were Italians, Poles, Russians, Rumanians, Germans, living in an area of employment agencies, meat markets, secondhand clothing and furniture stores. Around him too were hordes of immigrants who knew no English. Alexander Alexandroff spoke English. French, German, Polish. Italian. Hebrew, Russian, and understood several other languages besides. Soon his neighbors began to use his office as a place to receive mail. Soon they began to rely on him to write their letters, advise them about the strange ways of the U. S., or translate for them letters that they could not read...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
...first Woman's Rights Convention met in 1848, and interfaith services were pioneered. Last week the First Unitarian Congregation set what it believed was another precedent: it invited two rabbis to help ordain Member James Ziglar Hanner to the Unitarian ministry, closed the ordination service with the medieval Hebrew hymn Yigdal, sung in English...