Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dakar (swordfish in Hebrew) had just been completely modernized and sold to Israel after 20 years of service in Britain's Royal Navy. She was only three days out of Haifa on her maiden voyage under the Israeli flag when disaster struck without warning or explanation. Hardly had search-and-rescue operations been mounted for the Dakar when next day the Minerve suffered a similar fate during a training exercise. The 850-ton French submarine, commissioned in 1964 and named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, left no more clues to what happened than the Dakar. Ruling out possible...
...religiously observant will, more often than not, be Orthodox; of Israel's 6,000 synagogues, only nine are nonOrthodox. Far more than Reform or Conservative Judaism, Orthodoxy lives by the letter of God's law. It accepts every word of the Hebrew Bible as divinely inspired and insists that the God-fearing Jew must keep every one of the 613 rules of Halaka-the Scripture-based religious law that forbids servile work on the Sabbath, prohibits the eating of meat and dairy food at the same meal, and prescribes ritual bathing for men and women at certain times...
...much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs for the couple, Mehta sang themes from Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Hamrnerklavier sonata with Hebrew inflections. Later he told...
...scholars had heard of this scroll in Qumran, Jordan, near the Dead Sea, and with its 18 foot Hebrew text they began to unravel Biblical history...
Frank M. Cross Jr. is Handcock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard and one of the world's most expert interpreters of Dead Sea scrolls. Last spring he landed in a Beirut airport, and dialed the phone number of his "contact." A man answered, abrupt and frightened, who "didn't know anything" and directed him to the Hotel Phoenicia...