Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want a 9 o'clock class the morning after a weekend, but those who dare have their pick of sparsely filled classrooms and some excellent courses to boot. Dr. Taubes, a visiting professor from Hebrew University in Jerusalem who seems to be giving almost every other course in the catalog this year, will lecture in Humanities 134, "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy." While this hour could be profitably spent by those concerned with academic freedom or Father Feency, care should still be exercised in picking a course given by an unfamiliar professor...
...hour when millions are being added to our church rolls in one of the most significant evangelistic advances in the history of the church . . . we must make it plain that the Christian demand for justice does not come from Karl Marx. It comes from Jesus Christ and the Hebrew prophets . . . We are children of a God of love. We are brothers...
Early this year, Israel's ex-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called upon Judaism to rescind its excommunication of Spinoza and proposed that, as a kind of atonement, the Hebrew University publish the philosopher's complete works two years hence on the 300th anniversary of the famous curse...
...those years, Leopardi studied Latin, Greek, German, English, some Hebrew. When he emerged from the library at 17, he was a skilled philologist, a practiced poet, an authority on classical literature-and a ruined man. His eyes were so damaged that he could not bear the light of day; if he moved rapidly, "his head hammered and his pulses beat"; he was incapable of speaking to a stranger. Worst of all, a "double hump" had appeared between his shoulders-"a curvature of the spinal column...
...center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader and the congregation." The exterior will be double-walled-blue-tinted plastic under white-wired glass. A copper cap covering the pyramid will proclaim in large Hebrew letters: "I am the Lord thy God." Rabbi Cohen hopes to break ground for the $750,000 synagogue in Philadelphia's suburban Elkins Park next fall...