Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best to quash rumors of a secret mission when he arrived in Cairo, accompanied by Wife Nancy and Son David, 17. Modestly describing himself as a "private citizen," he insisted that he was "not here with an agenda." His trip was actually prompted by the decision of Hebrew University to give him an honorary doctorate, which he will receive this week in Jerusalem...
According to medical folklore, one way of conceiving male babies is to restrict intercourse to specific days in the menstrual cycle. But which days? Now a study of Orthodox Jewish women at Jerusalem's Hebrew University has produced a clue. Tallying up the sex of 3,658 babies born to women who observed the Jewish practice of niddah, which forbids sexual relations during menstruation and for seven days thereafter, Epidemiologist Susan Harlap reports a surprising result in the New England Journal of Medicine: of the 145 babies born to women who resumed intercourse two days after ovulation, 65.5% were...
...Jewish people (at Auschwitz): I kneel before all the inscriptions that come one after another bearing the memory of the victims, before the inscription in Hebrew. This inscription awakens the memory of the people whose sons and daughters were intended for total extermination. This people draws its origin from Abraham, our father in faith, as was expressed by Saul of Tarsus. The very people that received from God the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" it self experienced in a special measure what is meant by killing. It is not permissible for anyone to pass by this inscription with indifference...
...something very similar to his person. To compound his difficulties, a rather schizzy young woman (Janet Margolin) has mysteriously taken up residence in his apartment (her story of a mixed-up sublease does not wash awfully well). He is also in receipt of a death threat written in ancient Hebrew-not at all the form in which the Government generally drafts its pink slips...
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