Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your explanation of the name Jerusalem, you would find an illuminating reason by reading on a little farther in the Babylonian Talmud you quoted. This is the manner in which our sages put it: Abraham called it Jeruh (Hebrew for awe) and Shem, the son of Noah, called it Salem (for peace or completeness). And the L~d said, "If I call it Jeruh as Abraham did, then the righteous Shem will be insulted, and if I call it Salem as Shem did then the righteous Abraham will be insulted. I will therefore call it as both did -Jerusalem...
...refugees in the camps have been granted a privilege denied them all through the two decades they lived under Egyptian rule: the right to leave the camps by day and roam freely among the rest of Gaza's populace. Significantly, Gaza road signs are being lettered in Hebrew as well as the existing Arabic, and all five major Israeli banks have opened branches in the strip. On Sept. 1, some 100,000 Gaza schoolchildren will enroll in schools administered by Israel. Used as Nasserite indoctrination centers in the past, the schools will be supplied with some...
Krister Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, Frank M. Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, and George H. Williams, Hallis Professor of Divinity, signed a statement by Niebuhr saying that "we see no justification in the proposals which seek once again to destroy the unity which has been restored to Jerusalem...
Shortly before he reported for duty with his reserve unit during the six-day Arab-Israeli war, Hebrew University Scientist Isaac Harpaz, 42, proclaimed victory over a less obvious threat to his country. For several years hybrid corn plants in Israel-and in several European countries-had been under attack by a mysterious disease that dwarfed their growth, roughened their leaves and often completely destroyed them. The disease has now been routed, Harpaz reported, by his discovery that a little procrastination in planting will pay large dividends in healthy corn...
...tale unfolds, we find ourselves in the midst of a mass of unpleasant people. Shylock is not the only person interested in ducats; it seems that just about everybody in Venice and Belmont is a materialistic money-grubber. The very name Shylock is a transliteration of shalach, a Hebrew word for bird-of-prey; but here, almost all the characters are, in their diverse ways, birds-of-prey. These are unsavory people, notably lacking in spiritual values. (Is director Kahn trying to show us an image of mid-20th-century society...