Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants, and the broker wanders the room soliciting bids. When he gets a good offer, he "seals" the packet, which pledges that he will talk to no more potential buyers until he presents the offer to the seller. If the deal is closed, the broker says "Mazel" (luck in Hebrew) and the buyer replies "Mazel un brucha" (luck and blessing), a ritual used around the world, whatever the ethnic background of the participants...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday that the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society would probably aid Jewish students exiled from Iran...
Constitutional Law in Israel--Penina Lahav, Lecturer in Law, Hebrew University Room 4 International Legal Studies Building...
...largest commemorations will be held next month at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where Einstein spent his last 22 years, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which he helped found. "It's an avalanche effect," says Relativist Peter G. Bergmann of Syracuse University, one of Einstein's old collaborators. "Everyone wants to snatch a bit of reflected glory." Says Cambridge University's Martin Rees: "Einstein is the only scientist who has become a cult figure, even among scientists...
...Arab American, I would like to know why Middle East studies constitute a "Trojan horse" at Southern Cal [Nov. 13]. Nobody questions centers for Hebrew studies at our major universities, but it seems that any knowledge of Arab history or culture is "propaganda." It is in America's interest to explore both sides of the Middle East issue. Perhaps Americans are afraid of the truth...