Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East programs, from which American students get their knowledge of Arab society, go back to the 18th century, when Hebrew and Arabic were valued for their relevance to biblical and archaeological studies. They have thrived in recent years with funds from the post-Sputnik National Defense Education Act, the Ford Foundation and oil companies. Today leading centers-generally umbrella departments coordinating language, history, cultural and political studies-are at Princeton, U.C.L.A., Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, Harvard and Michigan...
Died. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, 71, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations since 1946 and controversial leading spokesman for the more than 1,000,000 Jews who make up the 100-year-old Reform Judaism Movement in the U.S. and Canada; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war, Rabbi Eisendrath led a successful fight in 1961 to establish a Religious Action Center in Washington...
Eban: The word Semitic is only a linguistic definition-nothing else. Hebrew and Arabic have a Semitic structure. But we are neighbors, and of course the conflict can be resolved. When Egypt decides to negotiate, I shall begin to believe that it has come to terms with Israel's statehood. Until then, I shall believe the opposite-and so will all Israelis...
Bloom is just the kind of person the Israeli government was looking for. He has been to Israel three times, has taken three semesters of Hebrew here, and has been intensely involved over the last five years with various Boston area Jewish organizations, particularly the militant Jewish Defense League...
...Soviet population of nearly 250 million, but they have earned a disproportionately high representation in scholarly, scientific and artistic fields. Soviet statistics show, for example, that 7% of all scientific workers are Jews. Yet Jews in many ways are second-class citizens in Russia. No works in Hebrew are permitted to be published, nor are any books in any language published there about Jewish history or culture. Zionism is considered a treasonable crime. When some Jews began to agitate for permission to emigrate to Israel-a phenomenon that arose after Israel's spectacular victory...