Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the Third Reich, the memoirs of Hitler's protege and confidant Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments and War Production, is being translated into Hebrew. Profits from the book's sale in Israel, Speer hastened to announce last week, will be donated to a youth-oriented German organization called Action Sign of Atonement...
...that Passover is "a clear prophecy of a greater story, the story of redemption through Christ the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who lived and died and rose again for the redemption of all who believe." That reading is based on a long tradition of Christian exegeses of the Hebrew scripture, which sees prefigurings of Jesus' mission in many Old Testament passages and practices. Jewish criticism, accordingly, was not so much aimed at the fact of proselytizing* as at the method. Some Jews assailed the program for using their own festival in an attempt to evangelize them; others were...
Like Philip Schechter, Martin Siegel has a jaundiced view of Reform Judaism. He, too, is 37: the two men, in fact, were classmates at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. There the resemblance ends. Schechter's anger is a howl from the pulpit: Siegel's is a whine from the swimming pool...
...contended that there was no official persecution or mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. Later, in an interview with TIME'S Friso Endt, the group's ranking member, Colonel General David Dragunski, raised doubts about his own Jewishness. When Endt asked whether he spoke Yiddish or Hebrew, Dragunski replied that he spoke neither, which is not unusual among Soviet Jews' But he also insisted that there was no difference between the two languages, which is not a mistake that many Jews would make. Then Endt tossed the general a Yiddish phrase that almost any Jew would...
...Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher . . ." In one new version his words become, "A vapor of vapors! Thinnest of vapors! All is vapor!"-turning the most passionate cry in the literature of nihilism into a spiritual weather report. The new rendition may be a more literal expression of the Hebrew original, but at what a cost in grace and power...