Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several myths arose to justify such treatment, thereby buttressing the patriarchal system. The Biblical tale of Potiphar's wife continues to be used against rape victims. Potiphar (an Egyptian) has an unnamed wife who lusts after her husband's Hebrew slave, Joseph. When virtuous Joseph refuses to succumb to her charms, she becomes enraged and falsely accuses him of rape--Joseph is thrown into jail...
...born survivor, protected by a warm and lively Orthodox Jewish family, and his narrative's interest turns not so much on whether David will escape his perils as on what he perceives with his wonderfully penetrating gaze. He sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful man, respected by other Polish immigrants as the onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed and jobless, battered by the Depression. Finally and most poignantly, he sees...
...million dollars of the $15 million is earmarked for six endowed professorships of $1 million each, including chairs in the areas of modern Jewish philosophy, modern Hebrew literature, and modern Jewish history...
...year and a half of study to complete on his master's in theology at Gordon-Conwell Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Mike and Wife Gayle, 24, live a few miles away in tiny Essex, Mass. (pop. 2,899). When not immersed in the intensive summer Hebrew course he takes three nights a week, Mike is usually to be found studying at home, playing tennis with Gayle or tending the small garden plot lent them by a neighbor. Gayle, whose father is a junior high school principal in Catonsville, Md., met Mike when they were students at Wake Forest...
...tended mass graves at the site of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, where an estimated 30,000 Jews died during the years of Nazi terror. While his German-born wife Leah, who fled the country as a child, looked on, Rabin recited the Kaddish, the traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead. The Premier also laid a wreath of blue and white carnations -the national colors of Israel-at the foot of a memorial plaque...