Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone, what can one do -commit hara-kiri?" In Vietnamese legend, the moon is represented by Hang-Nga, a beautiful maiden; "Now she is no longer a virgin," a Saigon intellectual lamented. Tel Aviv's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren offered a 20th century amendment to a 12th century Hebrew prayer on the eve of the new moon. For 800 years, it has read: "As I dance in front of you and yet cannot touch you, so all my enemies should be unable to harm me." The rabbi suggested that the line be changed to: "As I dance in front...
...empathy first" approach stems from solid clinical experience. He has spent nearly 20 years doing therapeutic work with parents and children, and teaches part-time at Adelphi and New York universities. In front of children and parents alike he is known for pulling out a harmonica and zipping through Hebrew folk songs; he has the stand-up comic's uncanny ability to mimic revealing snips of parent-child dialogue. He is at home quoting both Tolstoy and Bob Dylan, and can rattle off 58 slang terms for drugs. Says the Today show's Barbara Walters, who plans...
ARABS and Israelis found themselves in a rare moment of accord last week. In Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir told a Hebrew University audience: "Even our best friends do not have the right to decide for us what our conditions for peace and security should be." In Cairo, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser asserted to the Congress of his Arab Socialist Union: "No one can impose on the Arab nation what it considers to be inconsistent with its historical rights...
Strapped to Palm Trees. Hardly was one set of terrorists behind bars when another struck. As some 150 students and professors crowded the cafeteria of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, a 2-lb. plastic bomb, hidden in a flowerpot, exploded and injured 29 persons. On the same day, a grenade was hurled into a bank at Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, wounding an Arab depositor...
...roads lead to Kallia. One is closed by an improvised Hebrew sign warning of mines. The other is guarded by a shapely, smiling, blue-eyed blonde wearing fatigues and armed with a rifle and transistor radio. "We girls do the guard duty in the daytime. The boys are on at night," she explains. Nahal's settlers are largely boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 20, all volunteers. Technically, they are in the army and Kallia is formally an army camp, but the atmosphere is distinctly shirt-sleeve mufti. No one would ever think of saluting; everyone...