Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also decided to speak his mind about the boss. In a round of speeches, Harel explained that he was "a worried citizen" concerned about Eshkol's "in decisive leadership." To an audience of students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, he hinted, "Things are really much more serious than I can explain...
...message to the Gentiles. Now extraordinary new light has been cast on the beliefs of one such sect of Jewish Christians known as the Nassoreans or Nazarenes, in the form of a medieval Arab manuscript discovered in the archives of Istanbul. Biblical Scholar David Flusser of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, one of the world's ranking experts on early church history, calls the discovery "as important for the story of the first Christians as the Dead Sea Scrolls were for understanding the pre-Christian background...
Primitive Faith. The book was un earthed by an Oxford Islamic scholar, Dr. Samuel Stern, who just in passing told Hebrew University Philosopher Shlomo Pines about it. Pines, also an expert on early Christian history, concluded that the text accurately reflected the primitive faith of the Nazarenes, whose doctrines had previously been known through polemics against them by such orthodox theologians of the early church as Jerome and Epiphanius...
Reform Rabbi Jakob Petuchowski of Hebrew Union College agrees that " 'denominational' affiliation is no longer any guarantee of theological commitment." Some technically Orthodox synagogues have a predominantly Conservative membership, while many Reform families are nearly as strict in their observance of the law as Orthodox Jews. Petuchowski proposes that Judaism needs a new understanding and appreciation of Halacha (religious law) as a basis for unity: a Jew's piety should not be judged by how many of the 613 daily rules he keeps but by the spirit with which he conforms his life...
...been on the Columbia faculty for almost 40 years. He has also lectured at the University of London, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Cornell, Indiana and New York University. He will be Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 1968. Schapiro is noted for his contributions of the study of medieval painting and sculpture and of nineteenth and twentieth century...