Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five members who were either absent yesterday or did not sign the statement are: Dean Dunlop; James F. Hays, professor of Geology; William N. Lipscomb Jr., Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics; and, Isadore Twersky, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Language and Philosophy
Adiv returned home with instructions to pass on further information on Israeli military operations. But Israel's intelligence agency-commonly called Shin Bet from its Hebrew initials-has infiltrated radical groups. And when Shin Bet learned that Adiv's organization was planning a move of some sort, it smashed the ring...
Israel has long had a radical movement, if a tiny one; probably no more than a thousand people belong at the present time. The biggest group, SIAH (a Hebrew acronym for New Israeli Left), is in favor of both Arab and Jewish states in what once was Palestine and is now Israel and the occupied territories. Matzpen, which has never had more than a hundred members, also believes in restoring Arab rights to at least part of Palestine. The spy arrests dramatized the existence of an element on the left that is opposed to the very existence of Israel. Editor...
...inhabitants are Christian. The roots of their everyday speech go back at least to the 10th century B.C.; Aramaic was the language of parts of the Old Testament books of Daniel and Ezra, much of the Jerusalem Talmud and of the common people at the time of Christ, when Hebrew was used principally by the upper classes. Maloula, isolated in the hills, held out for centuries against both the Moslem religion and the Arabic tongue. The isolation has now been broken by a nearby superhighway, but the village still evokes the mood of an ancient Christian bastion, as TIME Correspondent...
Everyone in Maloula is now bilingual in Arabic and Aramaic (which sounds roughly like Hebrew, much as Dutch, say, sounds like German). The villagers seem oblivious to the fact that they are among the last custodians of the language of Jesus. But don't they at least feel a kinship with Jesus at Christmas? "No," says Father Philipos, a Lebanese priest of the village, "the reason the language has survived is that all the surrounding villages are Moslem. A second reason is that, if the villagers speak Aramaic, others will not understand. It helps the Maloulans to keep their...